Wrongful Convictions

Last week marked ten years since Kirstin “Blaise” Lobato was initially found guilty in the killing of Duran Bailey, a 44-year-old homeless man who had been stabbed and sexually mutilated in Las Vegas in July 2001.  Despite substantial evidence affirming her innocence and clear reversible error by the presiding judge, Ms. Lobato remains in the same Nevada prison where she …

Jeffrey Havard 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. Havard accidentally dropped Chloe after giving her a bath. According to Havard, Chloe slipped out of his hands and hit her head on the toilet. …

The Norfolk Four Michelle Moore-Bosko was raped and murdered in 1997 in Norfolk, Virginia. Michelle was the wife of William Bosko of the United States Navy. Five men were convicted of the crime. Four of these men, Joseph J. Dick Jr., Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Eric C. Wilson, were wrongly convicted. Dick, Williams, and Tice were convicted of murder …

With the current trends showing the obvious innocence of Amanda and Raffaele, Amanda is clearly winning public support here in America and abroad. (Judge Heavey advocates)   Amanda Knox and her family have endured an unprecedented campaign of vile accusations and hatred since Amanda was accused of a heinous murder in 2007.    With 21st century technology and communication, world …

   Americans were rightly concerned when Amanda Knox was convicted in Italy in 2009 based upon questionable evidence and a bizarre and improbable theory of the crime.  But the Italian system permits an appeal and a new court took a fresh look at the case in 2011, acquitting Amanda Knox and correcting the mistake made in 2009. The American "justice" …

How much of the Amanda Knox saga can be attributed to the Anti-American sentiment in Europe?  Bernard Chazelle, a Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University wrote an article: “Anti-Americanism: A Clinical Study.”   One of the ironies he points out is that Anti-Americanism is pretty much a phenomenon unto itself.  I’m guessing it’s probably because America has been the …