The Recanters: What Happens When Abuse Claims Come Undone?

From the Texas Observer.

TAMIR KALIFA

But at the National Center for Reason and Justice, a national nonprofit based in Massachusetts that identifies potential cases of innocence from among high stacks of letters from prisoners and parolees around the …

Man Granted New Trial in Child Sexual Abuse Case

Dedicated defense attorney Ron Kuby has handled other cases sponsored by the NCRJ, including that of wrongfully convicted Jesse Friedman.

Man Granted New Trial in Child Sexual Abuse Case…

Prosecutorial Misconduct – What’s to be Done? A Call to Action

Let’s take politics OUT of the prosecutor’s office, and let’s provide some “hot stove rule” legislation to achieve prosecutorial accountability, including appropriate sanctions and discipline.  Prosecutors are always politically campaigning on a platform of “tough on crime.”  Well, OK, but …

The NCRJ Responds to New York Times Article, “The Price of a Stolen Childhood”

The article was published in the New York Times Magazine on January, 27th, 2013.

NCRJ President Michael R. Snedeker responds:

Dear New York Times Magazine Editor:

In “The Price of a Stolen Childhood” (NYT Mag, 1/24/2013), Emily Bazelon wrote about …

NCRJ Advisor Harvey Silverglate On the Aaron Swartz Suicide

“The ill-considered prosecution leading to the suicide of computer prodigy Aaron Swartz is the most recent in a long line of abusive prosecutions coming out of the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston, representing a disastrous culture shift. It sadly reflects …

How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case

Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil liberties advocate [and NCRJ Advisor], has been an appellate attorney for MacDonald. He is outspoken about MacDonald’s innocence, and when I called him, I could hear the years of outrage in his voice over the …

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November 26, 2012

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On November 2, after 12 years, Anna Vasquez walked out of prison in Gatesville, …

Panic in Jerusalem

A study of past cases reveals startling similarities: The accusation always begins with a single complaint and is always parent-driven. The children’s accounts contain fabulous or impossible elements—magic tunnels, bullets that find their target, walls and people that disappear, and …

NY Landmark Ruling Allows Expert Witnesses on False Confessions at Trials

Defendant in Case, However, Does Not Meet the Criteria

Disappointing Decision, but it Opens the Door for Expert Testimony on False Confessions

“At her trial the following year, Ms. Bedessie testified that she did not do the things she had described doing with the boy, and had confessed to them only after a police detective told her she could either tell the …