Category: wrongful conviction

Hot New Release!

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date October 15, 2014

Not sure what this is but it is hopefully better than sinking.

Tags crime scene, death penalty, false confessions, forensic science, murder, serial killers, true crime, wrongful convictions

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The Picture on the Cover of Colder Case

Post author By G. Sherwood
Post date October 12, 2014

Is from the Baldwin Hills looking east at downtown Los Angeles in the background. There was some temptation to sharpen the image in the distance but it seemed a good metaphor to have things clearer the closer they are and fuzzy in the distance. The shadowy crime scene terrain is meant to depict the darkness […]

Tags crime scene, death penalty, false confessions, forensic science, murder, serial killers, true crime, wrongful convictions

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Introduction

Post author By
Post date September 5, 2014

Convicting the innocent is nothing new. In 1932, Edwin M. Borchard wrote Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice. Borchard was not a defense attorney and in the introduction he reveals he was not particularly interested in criminal law, but as a law professor at Yale University, he could not ignore injustice. He […]