A Major Setback for the Cause of Justice

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2011/01/27/ohio-supreme-court-reinstates-head-start-convictions-smith-allen-to-return-to-prison/

We are saddened and outraged by this tragic development. Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen are both fine people, innocent of the outrageous charges against them.They will continue to have the full support of the National Center for Reason and …

California Custody Battle Sparks Overseas Outrage

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

Falsely Convicted Texas Lesbians May Finally Get Justice

National Center for Reason and Justice

Roxbury MA

www.ncrj.org

December 22, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Robert Chatelle

Executive Director, National Center for Reason and Justice

naess2@gmail.com

Falsely Convicted Texas Lesbians May Finally Get Justice

New York, NY—December …

Katha Pollitt Suggests Donations to the NCRJ

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

The National Center for Reason and Justice Applauds DA Rice for Friedman Panel Selection

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 …

Smith/Allen Case Going to Ohio Supreme Court

This article appeared in today’s Lorain Ohio Morning Journal: http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2010/10/28/news/doc4cc9799d53fd3804988337.txt.

Let’s hope that the Ohio Supreme Court does the right thing and lets Joseph Allen and Nancy Smith get on with their lives.…

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.…