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Criminalizing Reproduction: Attacks on science, medicine and the right to...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  "In recent years, I have taken on the  theme of criminalizing reproduction - a natural theme for a Blog concerned with  flawed science in its myriad forms  - as I am utterly opposed...

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Wally Gillespie and Bobby Mailman: New Brunswick; Great News from New...

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "For 40 years, these men have maintained their innocence. It’s a big day for both men. I have been working on their case for six years and they have never faltered in their...

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Peter Ellis: New Zealand: A discredited prosecution witness (children's...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "There are reasons other than compensation for wanting an inquiry. Among them is to hold those most implicated in the Supreme Court ruling to account – because the failings...

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Maya Kowalski and Family: Florida; (Momentous lawsuit against Johns Hopkins...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I've seen a lot of disturbing tactics over the years in both civil and criminal cases, but the defence tactic  of  proving a juror's private life and communications in a bid to obtain...

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(Aftermath 1): Exonerated thanks to Innocence Canada: Robert Mailman and...

PUBLISHER'S   NOTE: Aiden Cox reports that, "The Saint John Police Force has declined to provide any interviews about Mailman and Gillespies acquittals, but says it will be seeking the final results of...

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(Aftermath 2): Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie: New Brunswick: A New...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY:  "Jerome Kennedy, a lawyer who represented Mailman and Gillespie, said he was pleased to see an apology from DeWare as part of her written decision. "[DeWare's apology] is very...

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William 'Tommy' Zeigler: Death Row: Florida: Florida prosecutors have not...

 "PUBLISHER'S  NOTE: WORDS TO HEED: FROM OUR POST ON KEVIN COOPER'S  APPLICATION FOR POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING; CALIFORNIA: (Applicable wherever a state resists DNA testing): "Blogger/extraordinaire...

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Gerald Delane Murray: Junk hair analysis: Old-school hair analysis is junk...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "A new report by the exoneration registry found 129 cases in which people were falsely convicted at least partly because of flawed hair analysis and testimony. Fifteen of the...

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard: Missouri: Munchausen by Proxy. A victim of medical...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "As any parent of a sick child would do, Dee Dee Blanchard appeared preoccupied with her daughter’s medical care, claiming she suffered from epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, leukemia...

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Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie: New Brunswick: How undisclosed evidence,...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Then there were the recantations of the two key witnesses. Innocence Canada noted it happened five times in the case of Loeman: to his own lawyer, to a journalist, in two letters...

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Emily and Michael Donlin: (Iowa): Criminalizing Reproduction: Attacks on...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  "In recent years, I have taken on the  theme of criminalizing reproduction - a natural theme for a Blog concerned with  flawed science in its myriad forms  - as I am utterly opposed...

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Renay Lynch: Buffalo, New York: Major (Welcome) Development: On Friday...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "During the post-conviction investigation, the Innocence Project and Fisher & Byrialsen, PLLC discovered powerful new fingerprint evidence that pointed to an alternative...

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Jane Dorotik: San Diego: California: Major (Welcome) Development: "A federal...

PUBLISHER'S  NOTE: WORDS TO HEED: FROM OUR POST ON KEVIN COOPER'S  APPLICATION FOR POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING; CALIFORNIA: (Applicable wherever a state resists DNA testing): "Blogger/extraordinaire...

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Horizon Post Office scandal: U.K. Major (Welcome) Development: The...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Former Labour MP John Mann told the Independent: “It should not have taken an ITV drama for this compensation to be paid and these convictions to be quashed. But we also need to...

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Henry Jamerson: Oklahoma: As DNA evidence casts doubt on Henry Jamerson’s...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "For decades, he begged the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office in letters and court motions to find and test the rape kit for DNA. Tulsa police said each time that the sexual...

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From our 'could it get much worse than this' department: Federal lawsuit...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Dotson, 43, was found dead on Nov. 16 at Ventress Correctional Facility. His family, suspecting foul play was involved in his death, hired a pathologist to do a second autopsy and...

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Brittany Watts: Ohio; Bulletin: Criminalizing Reproduction: Attacks on...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  "In recent years, I have taken on the  theme of criminalizing reproduction - a natural theme for a Blog concerned with  flawed science in its myriad forms  - as I am utterly opposed...

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United Kingdom: Horizon Post office scandal: 'One of the most widespread...

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "To date no Post Office staff have been punished for the scandal. On Friday, the Metropolitan police confirmed for the first time that the Post Office is under criminal...

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Chris Tapp: Idaho: Bulletin: His death, on October 29, 2023 in Las Vegas -...

BACKGROUND:  (December 8, 2023): The Innocence Project: "Remembering Chris Tapp: Beloved Innocence Project Client; The first person in the world to be exonerated with genetic genealogy." SUB-HEADING:...

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Shizuo Aishima and two co-accused: Japan: Controversial case - replete with...

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This Blog is interested in false confessions because of the disturbing number of exonerations in the USA, Canada and multiple other jurisdictions throughout the world, where, in the...

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