The Wrongful Conviction of Joseph Allen (and Nancy Smith)

Bob Chatelle and Emily Horowitz

Directors, National Center for Reason and Justice

Joseph Allen, July 2010

Photo Credit: James D’Entremont

Although most of the people wrongfully convicted in the daycare sex abuse panic of the 1980s/early 1990s have been exonerated, …

Bernard Baran and John Swomley at St. Francis College

Bernard Baran was the first case sponsored by the NCRJ. After 22 hellish years, he was finally freed in 2006 and exonerated in 2009.

On April 17, 2012, Baran and his attorney, John Swomley, spoke before a criminal-justice class at …