Wrongful Convictions

A parable for our times or a director out of his depth? On Friday night I was accompanied by son number one on a trip to visit son number two in college.  We took several bags of goodies and some birthday presents.  Then the three of us went for a pub meal. On returning to the college to deliver son …

(Derbyshire, United Kingdom) – Deborah Cavendish, the last of the six famed and eccentric Mitford sisters who were prominent in English society in the years surrounding World War II, died last week at the age of 94. Aristocratic, iconic, and glamorous, the sisters helped to define a feminine role, very different from today’s, in a long lost era. In the …

Basking in the anonymity of the internet is a small group of trolls who are posing as Meredith Kercher’s representatives.  They host news and discussion forums regarding her murder, which occurred in Perugia, Italy on November 1, 2007, its investigation, and the trials that followed.  At first glance these people seem legitimate, but barely scratch beneath the surface and you’ll …

More than a year ago, before the Florence appeal trial concerning the murder of Meredith Kercher, Raffaele Sollecito, defendant in that trial together with Amanda Knox, set up an account on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe to collect money to pay for his defense expenses during the oncoming trial and beyond. He has in this way received the contributions of his …

  This information is being shared from: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16874-wrongful-conviction-day-10-2 Wrongful Conviction Day began as an idea of Win Wahrer, Director of Client Services at the Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted (AIDWYC) http://www.aidwyc.org/ A small group of like-minded individuals – all committed to the dual cause of overturning wrongful criminal convictions and educating the broader community on this important legal and social …

This week, Injustice Anywhere Radio discussed the Byron Case case with Byron’s mother Evelyn Case, and the author of “The Skeptical Juror and the Trial of Byron Case,” John Bennett Allen. Anastasia Elizabeth WitbolsFeugen was murdered on the evening of October 22, 1997. Her body was found in a cemetery with a gunshot wound to her face. WitbolsFeugen had been fighting with her fiancé Justin …