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NCRJ Board Member Mary Sue Molnar Interviewed on KENS, San Antonio
“This is messed up. These laws are messed up,” Molnar adamantly stated. “A lot of these people who are on this registry for life would never hurt anyone.”
http://www.kens5.com/news/dEFENDING-SEX-OFFENDERS-176881741.html…
Prosecutor Agrees to Commutation of Nancy Smith’s Sentence
This is a very encouraging development. DA Dennis Will has heretofore been inflexible in striving to put Smith and her co-defendant, Joseph Allen, back in prison.
The NCRJ has been sponsoring Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen for many years.…
Anna Vasquez, of the San Antonio Four, Granted Parole
The legal team believes that the polygraph test — arranged and paid for by the NCRJ — was key to the decision to grant parole.
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Texas Four Accuser Recants
“I want my aunt and her friends out of prison,” Stephanie, 25, said by phone last week. “Whatever it takes to get them out I’m going to do. I can’t live my life knowing that four women are sleeping in …
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 …
Watch the NBC Dateline Program About the Smith/Allen Case
Dateline NBC to Air 1-Hour Progam on NCRJ-Sponsored Case
http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2012/04/06/news/mj6016169.txt…
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