NY Landmark Ruling Allows Expert Witnesses on False Confessions at Trials

Defendant in Case, However, Does Not Meet the Criteria Emily Horowitz Director, National Center for Reason and Justice (www.ncrj.org) On Thursday, March 29, 2012, New York’s highest court made a landmark ruling, saying that expert testimony about false confessions should be allowed at trial. Shamefully, the 5-2 decision upheld the conviction of Khemwatie Bedessie, the… Continue reading NY Landmark Ruling Allows Expert Witnesses on False Confessions at Trials

Disappointing Decision, but it Opens the Door for Expert Testimony on False Confessions

“At her trial the following year, Ms. Bedessie testified that she did not do the things she had described doing with the boy, and had confessed to them only after a police detective told her she could either tell the truth and go home or “go to Rikers Island jail, where she would be beaten,”… Continue reading Disappointing Decision, but it Opens the Door for Expert Testimony on False Confessions

Murder by Nursing

An article by NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/16/murder-by-nursing

New Trial Motion Filed for Father Gordon MacRae

Attorney Robert Rosenthal has filed a new-trial motion for Father Gordon MacRae, whose case is sponsored by the National Center for Reason and Justice.  He has supplied us with a copy of his opening brief. Here is Rosenthal’s introduction to the brief: Introduction In the early 1990s, it was well known in and around Keene,… Continue reading New Trial Motion Filed for Father Gordon MacRae