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MA: Rape Conviction Based on Bogus Hair Analysis Overturned

MA: Rape Conviction Based on Bogus Hair Analysis Overturned

by Alec | Jan 29, 2016 | Massachusetts

The human cost of the use of bogus and/or falsified forensic evidence in our criminal justice system is hard to measure considering the tens of thousands of convictions obtained through its use. In instances, such as the one Dahlia Lithwick reported on last fall in...
Likely Innocent Man Returns To Jail Due to False Confession – Sound Familiar?

Likely Innocent Man Returns To Jail Due to False Confession – Sound Familiar?

by OpenFile | Jan 15, 2016 | Delaware, The Open File Blog

Longtime readers of the Open File are familiar with the Jermaine Wright case. We wrote about it here and here. Mr. Wright spent 21 years on Delaware’s death row based almost solely* on a discredited confession the police obtained through a 13-hour session with...
PA: Prosecutor Confesses Withholding Evidence but Boss Claims Confession is False

PA: Prosecutor Confesses Withholding Evidence but Boss Claims Confession is False

by OpenFile | Nov 6, 2014 | Pennsylvania, The Open File Blog

Claims about false confessions are usually made by defendants not prosecutors.  But in a peculiar turn of events in Erie County, District Attorney Jack Daneri is arguing that his Chief Deputy, Brian Krowicki, made a false confession last July when he told the judge in...
Breaking: Prosecutor Finally Drops Charges in Troubling Michigan Case

Breaking: Prosecutor Finally Drops Charges in Troubling Michigan Case

by Jane | Mar 5, 2014 | Michigan, The Open File Blog

Citing a new report diagnosing 21 year-old Kosgar Lado with paranoid schizophrenia, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III announced today that he was dropping the charge of lying to police against Lado. Lado was charged after giving a false confession when he...

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