Wrongful Convictions

On the night of 1st November 2007 English student Meredith Kercher was murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy.  Amanda Knox, her American flat mate spent the evening and night elsewhere with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.   They came under early suspicion and were subjected to a lengthy and unlawful interrogation on the night of 5th-6th November.   Together with  African bar …

This August, former Indiana State Trooper David Camm will go on trial for the third time in the murder of his wife and two young children, Jill, age five,  and Brad, age seven. His two previous convictions have been overturned on appeal. David Camm is completely innocent. Along with the horrific loss of his family, David has spent the last …

Support for death row inmate Jeffrey Havard continues to grow as his federal appeal awaits a decision from United States District Judge Keith Starrett. Jeffrey Havard currently sits wrongfully convicted on death row in Mississippi for the sexual assault and murder of his girlfriend’s six-month-old daughter, Chloe Britt. Chloe’s death was a tragic accident, not a murder. Jeffrey accidentally dropped …

 =The Wizard of Oz is a classic piece of literature and cinema in which an innocent girl and her lovable dog find themselves in a world they don’t recognize and where there is danger at every turn. Oz is a place where even an innocent young girl could meet sudden death at the hands of unimaginable evil. It is also …

“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt”  – Francois La Rochefoucauld In May this year, Google introduced a new feature. It is called the Knowledge Graph. It’s not a graph and it doesn’t always impart knowledge, but never mind. You can read about it here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/05/16/google-revamps-search-results-pages-with-knowledge-graph/ Knowledge Graph is a summary box that appears at the top right of the …

The Amanda Knox saga continues to linger for several reasons.   Some believe that the final Italian Supreme Court ruling scheduled for March 2013 will contradict the ruling of The Honorable Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman.  For those who believe that will happen, they are either misguided or part of an organized attempt to relieve the pressure on Italy to investigate the …