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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/

(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 encourages its production, which necessarily involves the abuse of children. But this argument has little… Continue reading Our misguided child porn laws do little to protect children

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. These include exaggerated beliefs about the prevalence of pedophilia and crime in general, overly broad sex… Continue reading Woody Allen, Feminism, and ‘Believing the Survivor’

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,” Zellner said. “We were able to prove they framed him. We’ve proven the evidence was fabricated.… Continue reading Jury Awards 9 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Cop

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 one spouse by the other were false, but explained that they were understandable because the… Continue reading Dylan Farrow’s Accusations

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 reason, we post the following editorial: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20140201/OPINION/140209771/11609/OPINION “I see two moral or ethical lessons from… Continue reading Coakley Should Admit Fells Acres Mistakes

My name is Cornelius Dupree, and I am a sex offender. I paced the narrow aisle between the bunks in my cell, going over the words in my mind, trying to force them to my lips. Those were the words I would have to say in front of the other men in the counseling program… Continue reading Nothing but the Truth

“It sounds laughable,” says Debbie Nathan, an investigative reporter who co-wrote Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt about the panic and is now a director for the National Center for Reason and Justice, which took up the Kellers’ cause. But there is certainly historical precedent, going back even… Continue reading Slate reprises the Kellers, satanic panic, and NCRJ’s role in stopping it.

TAMIR KALIFA “Otto found an organization called the National Center for Reason and Justice, which was created in the wake of the 1980s-era satanic ritual abuse scandals to advocate for people wrongfully accused of harming children. His packet of information about the case ended up on the desk of Debbie Nathan, a journalist who wrote… Continue reading The Mystery of the San Antonio Four

Sex offender registries do not increase public safety, especially when you include the part of the public whose names and addresses appear on the registry. Following the murder of one registered offender and the severe maiming of another, both in Keene, NH, Citizens for Criminal Justice-New Hampshire is calling on authorities to take down the… Continue reading A murderer targets registered sex offenders