California Custody Battle Sparks Overseas Outrage

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/15/us/AP-US-Serbian-Family-Custody-Fight.html…

Katha Pollitt Suggests Donations to the NCRJ

From The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/156991/spread-joy…

Criminally Innocent

Traditional Innocence Projects are great, but what happens if there’s no DNA? Fresh off the presses, Austin Chronicle reports on an imaginary crime–and on Innocence Projects’ new concern for people falsely convicted of child sex abuse.…

Mark Pendergrast’s Review of My Lie

Review of My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, by Meredith Maran.  Jossey-Bass, 2010.

by Mark Pendergrast

It’s about time someone such as Meredith Maran wrote a book like this.  Her book explains how in 1988 she …

Daycare worker to have day in court October 18

While most daycare and preschool workers who were falsely accused of “satanic ritual abuse” in the panic-ridden 1980s and 1990s had their convictions overturned on appeal years ago, daycare workers continue to be falsely convicted in more recent cases that …

A New Memoir About False Memory

NCRJ Director Mark Pendergrast was interviewed for the newly released book My Lie: A True Story about a False Memory.

Here is of the book.…

An In-Depth Look at False Confessions

Untrue Confessions.

From Counterpunch.

By NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz.

How Kemwattie Bedessie was falsely convicted. And what’s wrong not just with false confessions, but with true confessions, too.…

Confessing to Crime, but Innocent

From the New York Times.

High-pressure interrogations like those discussed in this article have compelled confessions from some of the people whom NCRJ sponsors, most notably Jesse Friedman, who was 18 years old and under extreme duress when the …

ANOTHER NCRJ-SPONSORED CASE ADVANCES TOWARD JUSTICE

Another major case sponsored by NCRJ has just been taken on by Innocence Projects, and this weekend the defendant’s claims of innocence were featured in an article on the front page of the Boston Globe and a video at the …

Texas Monthly on the Mineola Sex Ring Case

http://www.texasmonthly.com/2010-04-01/webextra20.php…