Wrongful Convictions

This is what happens when police get tunnel vision. They shoot the arrow, then they draw the target. They lose their objectivity and that’s why we have juries. – Raymond Kelly I would like to return to the subject of Mignini’s behaviour and thought processes. Many religious fundamentalists, both Roman Catholic and Protestant still believe in the reality of evil and …

Jeffrey Havard A new petition was recently started asking United States District Judge Keith Starrett to grant Jeffrey Havard a new trial. Jeffrey was wrongfully convicted in 2002 of murder by shaken baby syndrome and sexual molestation of six-month old Chloe Britt. He was sentenced to death by the State of Mississippi. Jeffrey gave his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter Chloe a …

Debra Jean Milke A confession made of the substance dreams are made on The case On December 2nd 1989 Cristopher Conan Milke, aged four, was declared missing in Phoenix AZ, by Jim Styers, roommate of Debra Jean Milke, mother of the young child. The next day, December 3rd, Roger Scott, a friend of Styers and an acquaintance of Milke, confessed …

At some point on 2nd November 2007, following the discovery of the body of Meredith Kercher at 7 Via Della Pergola in Perugia, Italy, a member of the forensic team took some photographs showing a bedside lamp lying on its side behind the door to the room, with its cable unplugged and running from the lamp, across the doorway in …

“Witches never existed, except in people’s minds.  All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly.  Witches?  We’re all witches in one way or another.  Witches was the invention of mankind, son.  We’re all witches beneath the skin.”  – Ian Rankin, The Flood …

Last week, Wikipedia, the popular, free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, held its 8th annual celebration in Washington, DC.  The event was hosted by George Washington University and attracted about 1400 participants from 87 countries, over twice the number at any of their past events. Surprisingly this was only the second time the event has been held in the …