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Washington State Passes Wrongful Conviction Compensation Law
May 16th, 2013 — 
exoneration,justice,legislation,post-conviction, compensation, legislation, Reversed Conviction, Washington
Last Wednesday Washington became the 28th state to pass a wrongful conviction compensation law with Gov. Jay Inslee signing a bill that will take effect in July. Under the new law, a wrongfully convicted person would be eligible to file... Read More >
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Florida exoneree Anthony Caravella awarded $7 million in damages
April 10th, 2013 — Innocence Project of Florida,justice, Anthony Caravella, Broward County, Geore Pierson, Law Enforcement misconduct, The Innocence Project of Florida, William Mantesta
Florida DNA exoneree Anthony Caravella walked out of prison in March of 2010. Almost three years later, he has been awarded $7 million in damages. He spent 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. After his exoneration... Read More >
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Celebrating 10 Years of Freeing the Innocent
April 2nd, 2013 — Innocence Project of Florida,Press Release, Betty Anne Waters, Conviction, Frank Lee Smith Innocence Award, Steppin' Out with the Innocence Project of Florida
Meet Betty Anne Waters, real life heroine of the movie Conviction, at Steppin’ Out with the Innocence Project of Florida in Miami on April 5th TALLAHASSEE, FL (March 28, 2013) — For ten years the Innocence Project of Florida... Read More >
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Documenting Their Strife
March 20th, 2013 — exoneration,Innocence Project of Florida, Al Reinhart, An Unreal Dream, Antron McCray, Ken Burns, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Michael Morton, Raymond Santana, Sarah Burns, The Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam
Movies documenting the lives of those exonerated from their wrongfully conviction have become powerful forces bringing to light some of the flaws in our criminal justice system. The Central Park Five and An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story are... Read More >
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The Trouble with Texas
February 6th, 2013 — justice,legislation,post-conviction, compensation, death penalty, Larry Swearingen, post-conviction DNA testing, Texas innocence, wrongful conviction
The State of Texas is laden with one of the largest controversies in our society, the death penalty. Bloomberg Businessweek reports, “Texas is well known for its prodigious use of the death penalty: On Halloween [2012], it carried out its 250th execution... Read More >
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Plea Bargaining: Coercion or Choice?
January 23rd, 2013 — justice, False Confessions, Henry Alford, Lucian Dervan, Mc Martin Pres-school Trial, plea bargains, sixth amendment, The Innocent Defendant's Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem, Vanessa Edkins
When the founding fathers included the sixth amendment in the Bill of Rights, I am sure they never imagined that in this day and age almost 90 percent of defendants in criminal cases would relinquish their constitutional rights and plead... Read More >
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Exonerated and Still Not Allowed to Vote
November 5th, 2012 — exoneration,justice,policy, Bennett Barbour, voter disenfranchisement, Voting in Virginia, voting rights in Virginia, voting with a felony, who can't vote
On election day, remember that various forms of incarceration have disenfranchised 5.85 million Americans. Only 25% of these 5.85 million are currently incarcerated, according to The Sentencing Project. Eleven different states’ rules restrict 45% of the 5.85 million from voting because... Read More >
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From the Executive Director: The Next Ten Years
In our first ten years, the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) has come a long way from a stairwell landing in the Cawthon House at Florida State University College of Law to our current offices on Park Avenue, from our... Read More >
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Twenty-Four Years to Freedom
August 29th, 2012 — exoneration,Uncategorized, David Lee Wiggins, exoneration in Texas
After spending 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, last week David Lee Wiggins walked out of the Tarrant County, Texas, courthouse hand in hand with his brother and sister as a free man. Wiggins was... Read More >
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Compensation Statutes Discussed in Colorado
August 20th, 2012 — justice,legislation,litigation,Uncategorized, colorado district attorneys council, Colorado exonerations, exoneree compensation, justice for the innocent, Robert Dewey, statutes of wrongful incarceration
Colorado does not have statutes that command or set rules for the financial compensation of people who have been exonerated after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. Colorado is considering the need for creating such a compensation statute.... Read More >