Attorney Credits Polygraph For Anna Vasquez’s Release

In a previous interview, Ware speculated that the parole board approved Vasquez’s release after he gave its general counsel a polygraph test taken in the past year that she passed.

Anna Vasquez, of the Texas Four, Released

In the days leading up to her daughter’s release, Maria Vasquez said she and her family had been preparing Anna’s room, buying a new bedroom suite, mattress, TV and blankets.

They also planned to get whatever groceries they needed for …

NCRJ Board Member Mary Sue Molnar Interviewed on KENS, San Antonio

“This is messed up. These laws are messed up,” Molnar adamantly stated. “A lot of these people who are on this registry for life would never hurt anyone.”

http://www.kens5.com/news/dEFENDING-SEX-OFFENDERS-176881741.html…

Prosecutor Agrees to Commutation of Nancy Smith’s Sentence

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2012/10/31/prosecutor-says-hell-agree-to-commute-nancy-smiths-sentence-to-time-served/

This is a very encouraging development. DA Dennis Will has heretofore been inflexible in striving to put Smith and her co-defendant, Joseph Allen, back in prison.

The NCRJ has been sponsoring Nancy Smith and Joseph Allen for many years.…

Anna Vasquez, of the San Antonio Four, Granted Parole

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Parole-OK-d-for-woman-fighting-for-exoneration-3947885.php

The legal team believes that the polygraph test — arranged and paid for by the NCRJ — was key to the decision to grant parole.

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Texas Four Accuser Recants

“I want my aunt and her friends out of prison,” Stephanie, 25, said by phone last week. “Whatever it takes to get them out I’m going to do. I can’t live my life knowing that four women are sleeping in …

The Wrongful Conviction of Joseph Allen (and Nancy Smith)

Bob Chatelle and Emily Horowitz

Directors, National Center for Reason and Justice

Joseph Allen, July 2010

Photo Credit: James D’Entremont

Although most of the people wrongfully convicted in the daycare sex abuse panic of the 1980s/early 1990s have been exonerated, …

Bernard Baran and John Swomley at St. Francis College

Bernard Baran was the first case sponsored by the NCRJ. After 22 hellish years, he was finally freed in 2006 and exonerated in 2009.

On April 17, 2012, Baran and his attorney, John Swomley, spoke before a criminal-justice class at …

Watch the NBC Dateline Program About the Smith/Allen Case

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/vp/46994994#46994994…

Clemency Granted in High-Profile Shaken Baby Case

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/grandmother-joyful-after-shaken-baby-sentence-commuted.html…