A story of wrongful conviction, AI errors, and the lasting damage done when the system fails the innocent. Even freedom doesn’t fix everything.
Read more: https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/wrongful-conviction-qualified-immunity-and-the-cost-of-being-forgotten/

#WrongfulConviction #CriminalJustice #AI

Explore life after wrongful conviction — a powerful look at resilience, rebuilding, and the impact of injustice on those once wrongly accused. #WrongfulConviction #JusticeMatters #LifeAfterPrison #Resilience #SecondChances #TruthAndJustice

Read here: https://www.wyalusing-wes.com/life-after-wrongful-conviction/

Today in Labor History March 20, 2000: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested for murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. Al-Amin had been a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. He once said that “violence is as American as cherry pie.” Al-Amin denied shooting the deputy. His fingerprints were not found on the murder weapon. He had no gunshot wounds, though officers who were present at the shootout claimed that the suspect had been hit and wounded. Another man, Otis Jackson, later confessed to being the shooter, but the authorities have repeatedly denied Al-Amin’s requests for a retrial. He is now serving a life sentence. He had been at Florence supermax, under a gag order preventing interviews with journalists. In 2014, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary, Tucson. In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal from al-Amin. He died on November 25, 2025.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackpanthers #sncc #HRapBrown #prison #cancer #journalism #incarceration #SuperMax #wrongfulconviction #racism #BlackMastodon

Texas Court Clears Four Men in 1991 Austin Murder Case

Are the Austin yogurt shop suspects innocent? Yes, in 2025 a judge cleared four men after 34 years because new DNA points to a different killer.

#austintx, #yogurtshopmurders, #texasjustice, #dnalevidence, #wrongfulconviction

https://newsletter.tf/texas-judge-clears-four-men-austin-yogurt-shop-murders-2025/

Four men are now legally innocent of the 1991 Austin yogurt shop murders after 34 years. This is the first time a judge has fully cleared their names using new DNA evidence.

#austintx, #yogurtshopmurders, #texasjustice, #dnalevidence, #wrongfulconviction

https://newsletter.tf/texas-judge-clears-four-men-austin-yogurt-shop-murders-2025/

Today in Labor History February 7, 1917: A court wrongly convicted labor organizer Tom Mooney for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in July 1916. The governor finally granted him an unconditional pardon after 22.5 years of incarceration. 10 people died in the bombing and 40 were injured. A jury convicted two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, based on false testimony. Both were pardoned in 1939. Not surprisingly, only anarchists were suspected in the bombing. A few days after the bombing, they searched and seized materials from the offices of “The Blast,” Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman’s local paper. They also threatened to arrest Berkman.
In 1931, while they were still in prison, I. J. Golden persuaded the Provincetown Theater to produce his play, “Precedent,” about the Mooney and Billings case. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, “By sparing the heroics and confining himself chiefly to a temperate exposition of his case [Golden] has made “Precedent” the most engrossing political drama since the Sacco-Vanzetti play entitled Gods of the Lightening… Friends of Tom Mooney will rejoice to have his case told so crisply and vividly.”

You can read my full bio of Tom Mooney here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/

#LaborHistory #workingclass #bombing #sanfrancisco #TomMooney #anarchism #prison #IWW #wrongfulconviction #EmmaGoldman #play #playwright #books @bookstadon