Woody Allen Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt

JoAnn Wypijewski in The Nation

“Trampling on an accused priest’s due process rights doesn’t matter to a lot of people, even civil libertarians. Ordinarily, an overgrown gossip column with pretensions wouldn’t matter either, except that this one, “Mia’s Story,” was …

Woody Allen and the Virtual Lynch Mob…

By Mark Godsey

Director, Center for the Global Study of Wrongful Conviction;
Director, Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2014/02/13/woody-allen-and-the-virtual-lynch-mob/…

Our misguided child porn laws do little to protect children

(AP Photo/WJLA-TV)

n fact, it is not clear why mere possession of child pornography should ever be grounds for locking people in cages. The Supreme Court’s main rationale for upholding the ban on possession was that demand for this material …

Woody Allen, Feminism, and ‘Believing the Survivor’

Cathy Young, writing in Time, points to the role of feminism in legitimizing false accusations of child sexual abuse. But there are many other social anxieties and criminal policies and practices that enhance people’s tendency to believe such claims. …

Jury Awards 9 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Cop

Sharon Krause, the detective whose concocted “evidence” convicted this cop, was also instrumental in sending an innocent mother, Lynn Malcom, to prison. The NCRJ has long sponsored Lynn’s case.

“Justice was served — even though it took 30 years,” …

Dylan Farrow’s Accusations

Lawyers representing divorced people in custody battles know well that the first charge of child abuse gives the accuser momentum. False charges have become common in this context, even acceptable. A Seattle judge recently acknowledged that charges of molestation against …

Coakley Should Admit Fells Acres Mistakes

The NCRJ does not endorse (or disendorse) political candidates. We are, however, more than convinced that the Amiraults are innocent and that the Fells Acres case was a hysteria-driven witch hunt. We have sponsored this case since 2002.

For this …