Woody Allen, Feminism, and ‘Believing the Survivor’

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. …

Jury Awards 9 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Cop

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,” …

Dylan Farrow’s Accusations

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 …

Coakley Should Admit Fells Acres Mistakes

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 …

Nothing but the Truth

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 …

“Did Your Father Touch You?”

Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine

When she was 8 years old, Chaneya Kelly lived in a pale-yellow house on Washington Street in Newburgh, New York. She was the oldest of five kids, with two brothers and two sisters, ages …

Petition for Review Granted

Varn Chandola of Seattle is enmeshed in a domestic dispute with his ex-wife. His case came to our attention because the trial court’s ruling dividing the spoils and the time each parent can spend with their child not only did …

1 in 5 criminal exonerations: No crime occurred

In most legal exonerations, somebody did the crime — just not the person convicted of it. But, of those recorded as of mid-November 2013 by the University of Michigan’s National Exoneration Registry, 129 — or more than a fifth …

Orange is the New (and Terrible) Black

New study: How to slow galloping federal incarceration

A new Urban Institute study called Stemming the Tide looks at the “dramatic,” “unsustainable,” and “dangerous” increase in the federal prison population, and proposes ways to undo it.

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Mandee Lea James-Vansandt

Mandee Lea James-Vansandt was falsely accused of “shaken baby syndrome” after she took her five-month-old baby (born prematurely) to the emergency room. Now the State of Oklahoma has taken away her baby and her eight-year-old son, and she is facing …