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Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann On October 3, 2011, appeals court Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, presiding over a crowded courtroom, confidently declared that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were innocent, stating the two had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of Meredith Kercher. Hellmann’s decision gave Amanda and Raffaele freedom after serving 1427 days in prison for a crime they …
Read More »AMANDA KNOX: Declaration of WAR?
Dear President Barack Obama, This is NOT a Declaration of WAR. This is a plea to assist an innocent American student that has been entrapped in a medieval mentality, studying abroad in Italy. Amanda will be tried again for murder! __________________________________________________ If you need any background in the Amanda Knox case, please see DENVER or the revised …
Read More »The Italian Supreme Court to Rule on the Amanda Knox Case
This week the Italian Supreme Court will consider the prosecution’s appeal of an appellate court’s acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. The court will hear oral arguments on Monday, March 25, 2013 and may issue a ruling by the end of the day. Most observers of the closely watched case …
Read More »Death Row Inmate Debra Jean Milke Has Convictions Overturned
Debra Jean Milke The convictions of Arizona death row inmate Debra Jean Milke were overturned Thursday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Milke has spent the past 22 years on death row for the 1989 murder of her 4-year-old son Christopher. On the day of the murder, James Styers, a man Milke shared an …
Read More »The Ryan Ferguson Case Highlights The Difficulty Of Correcting A Wrongful Conviction
Ryan Ferguson was wrongfully convicted in 2001 of second-degree murder of Columbia Tribune Sports Editor Kent Heitholt, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Ferguson is one of roughly 2.3 million people currently housed in America’s prison system. The United States incarcerates more people than any civilized nation on earth. A majority of those convicted are guilty as charged …
Read More »Wikipedia’s Governance Structure: A Call for Change
Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has probably done more to further the education of those in the world who want to learn than any innovation in our lifetime, and it has never cost the taxpayers a cent. That is an impressive accomplishment. Their first decade featured rapid growth which took on a life of its own …
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