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 …

Dorothy Rabinbowitz: The Trials of Father MacRae

“Here once more, in the MacRae case, was a set of charges built by a determined sex-abuse investigator and an atmosphere in which accusation was, in effect, all the proof required to bring a guilty verdict. But now there was …

Psych Experts Support Keller Appeal

“The continuing imprisonment of Fran and Danny Keller on the grounds that they were supposed Satanic conspirators who forced children to engage in evil sexualized rituals is an historical anomaly and obvious injustice,”

http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/news/2013-03-26/psych-experts-support-keller-appeal/

Dr. Harrington and Dr. Wood are …

Joseph Allen Desperately Needs Your Help

Last June, Robert Chatelle and Dr. Emily Horowitz of the NCRJ published this article about the Smith/Allen case, which we sponsor:

There have been some disturbing recent developments.

Judge Burge has recused himself from the case and a new …

It’s About Time We Freed the Friedmans!

Jesse Friedman, who served 13 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, is now awaiting a decision that could overturn the conviction.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claudia-ricci/its-about-time-we-freed-t_b_3169746.html…

St. Francis professor fights to overturn Friedman’s conviction

“Now, Professor [and NCRJ Director Emily] Horowitz brings back [Jesse] Friedman and [Ron] Kuby to answer questions and show new evidence that contradicts the claims made in the original case on Tuesday, April 9 at 4 p.m. in Room 4202 …

Report On ‘Capturing The Friedmans’ Sex Abuse Case Urges DA To Overturn Jesse Friedman’s Conviction

The NCRJ report indicates that the Friedman case contains the 10 hallmarks of false sex crime prosecution: “Police Misconduct; Absence of Physical Evidence; Absence of Medical Evidence; Outlandish or Impossible Scenarios; Prosecutorial Misconduct; Judicial Misconduct; Coercive Interviews by Police and …

Uncapturing a Friedman

But Jarecki isn’t concerned solely with the welfare of Friedman: “I’m equally concerned about the hundreds of people who were told by the police, falsely, that their children were attacked and falsely molested.”

“That perverts your outlook on life,” he …

NCRJ White Paper on the Jesse Friedman Case

New Evidence in the Jesse Friedman Case

Jesse Friedman, of “Capturing the Friedmans,” whose case NCRJ sponsors: Look at the new evidence. Sign the petition. http://www.justiceforjesse.com/…