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Fred Zain. Frederick Salem Zain (April 14, 1951 – December 2, 2002) [1][2] was an American forensic laboratory technician in West Virginia and Bexar County, Texas, who falsified serology [3] results to obtain convictions.
Research into the issue of wrongful convictions have led to the use of methods to avoid wrongful convictions, such as double-blind eyewitness identification. [74] Leading causes of wrongful convictions in the United States include snitches [75] and unscientific forensics. [76] [77] Other causes include police and prosecutorial misconduct. [78] [79]
The prosecution appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the state's highest court rejected the appeal. The prosecution dismissed the charges on October 11, 2018. Jones' nearly 45 years in prison was the second longest time spent incarcerated after a known wrongful conviction in U.S. history at the time. [79] June 3, 1973: Chol Soo Lee: Murder
Working together, the stakeholders uncovered contributing weaknesses in investigation, forensic science, discovery, defense performance and post-conviction procedures in Bryant’s case. The team ...
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's law providing compensation to incarcerated people who were wrongfully convicted doesn't apply if the defendant was only "legally" innocent ...
Innocence Project. Innocence Project, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit legal organization that is committed to exonerating individuals who have been wrongly convicted, through the use of DNA testing and working to reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. [1][6] The group cites various studies estimating that in the United ...
Virginia Bridges. September 5, 2024 at 2:36 PM. The years-long legal battles involving a man accusing a Durham officer of a wrongful arrest that led to 21 years in prison ended with the city ...
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.