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...
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...
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...
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...
