This week’s post covers some highs and lows: saying goodbye to a former Army friend, welcoming a new grandson who arrived ahead of schedule, and reflecting on the exoneration of three Pennsylvania men after nearly three decades behind bars.
#Exoneration #CriminalJustice #Family
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/a-new-grandson-a-lost-friend-and-an-exoneration/
3 Men Who Were Wrongly Convicted of Crimes
Trump Directs DOJ to Seek the Death Penalty in DC “in All Appropriate Cases”
Trump’s executive order is “designed to spread fear,” Free DC says, “something we know authoritarians always do.”Bryan Hooper Sr. was wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years for the 1998 murder he didn't commit.
#JusticeServed #WrongfulConviction #MinnesotaNews #FamilyReunion #TrueStory #Exoneration #CriminalJustice #BryanHooper #Innocent #truecrime #murder #annakarolinaheinrich
In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value https://theconversation.com/in-death-penalty-cases-the-quest-for-justice-is-not-americas-highest-value-256042
States such as Louisiana have enacted factual innocence statutes because there is no nationwide, constitutional bar to executing people who are factually innocent.
Just as gross as the apparent conspiracy to hide the evidence is DA Kunzweiler's insistence on appealing the declaration of actual innocence. Dude accept that you screwed up & move on. #exoneration
Man sues city of Tulsa, police over 'destroyed' evidence after being ruled innocent
The National Registry of Exonerations released its 2024 annual report last week. They recorded 147 exonerations last year where the people involved lost over 1,980 years of their lives.
Read the PDF report here: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/FORMATTED%202024%20ANNUAL%20REPORT.pdf #Exoneration #WrongfulConvictions
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