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From the July 1997 issue of The Guide. Editor French Wall. Fidelity Publishing, POB 990593, Boston MA 02199-0593. email: theguide@guidemag.com. 617/266-8557 fax:617/266-1125] [Copyright 1997 by Jim D’Entremont and Bob Chatelle. Anyone may link to this page without explicit permission. Requests to repost all or part of this article on electronic systems serving fighters for justice… Continue reading Salem’s Shadow

This paper will explore how the criminal justice system’s ingrained prejudice against LGBTQ2S+ people can lead to wrongful convictions. Primarily, this paper will focus on the negative stereotypes of and myths surrounding queer people, rooted in homophobia and transphobia, that lead to wrongful convictions. Examining the cases of Miguel Castillo, Bernard Baran, The San Antonio… Continue reading Queer in Fear: The Role of Homophobia and Transphobia in Wrongful Convictions

“For the last 29 years, Father Gordon MacRae has been denied justice, relegated to Concord Men’s Prison in New Hampshire. Despite an ex-FBI agent’s 3-year investigation, a Pulitzer prize-winning Wall Street Journalist’s multi-part exposé, even a current investigation into the police officer who framed him, nothing has thus far moved the needle — except perhaps… Continue reading Corruption Drove the Fr. Gordon MacRae Case

Please join us to help launch this important new book by NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz. Click here for detailed information. Join your host, Amber Vlangas, for a casual fireside chat and launch party with Emily Horowitz, author of the new book: From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not… Continue reading Please Join us!

The National Center for Reason and Justice has been sponsoring the case of Father Gordon MacRae for many years. Gordon recently informed me of this new 43 minute documentary about his case.

photo: Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe “Thirty-five years, more than half of my life, I spent behind the wall of a Massachusetts state prison,” Rosario read from a written statement at the news conference outside Boston’s federal courthouse. “Today this chapter is ended and a new chapter begins. Nothing can ever compensate me for those years taken… Continue reading Wrongfully convicted Massachusetts man gets $13 million settlement

photo: Madeleine O’Neill/The Daily Record “The criminal justice system’s demand for proof beyond a reasonable doubt has led to the development of entire scientific fields – some now facing serious questions about their accuracy — aimed at definitively proving a suspect’s guilt or innocence. “Bloodstain patterns. Handwriting analysis. Firearm and toolmark examination. “The urge for… Continue reading 25 years after ‘shaken baby’ conviction, Baltimore County man once again tries to prove his innocence

photo: Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff “Since 2019, judges have thrown out murder and rape convictions against more than a dozen Boston men, almost all of whom are Black and had been sentenced to life in prison. Barry Kamara has fought for nearly 32 years to prove that he wasn’t the gunman who killed a fellow teenager… Continue reading Suffolk judge overturns 1992 murder conviction, clearing Barry Kamara’s name at last

photo: Mark Reis, special to the Colorado Sun “The way our mandatory reporting system exists right now — my opinion is that it does more harm than it does good,” Jerry Milner told the state’s Mandatory Reporting Task Force last month. Milner is former head of the Children’s Bureau, a federal agency tasked with child… Continue reading Does mandatory reporting of child abuse help or hurt? A Colorado task force is taking a second look.