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Article • December 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2025
Maryland Supreme Court Announces New Constitutional Rule Requiring Voir Dire Questions Related to Child-Witness Credibility and Abrogates Prior Inconsistent Case Law by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The Supreme Court of Maryland announced a new rule of constitutional law permitting defendants to ask potential jurors during jury selection whether they …
False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions: Known Causes and Steps to Eliminate Them by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A s of February 2024, the National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) at the University of Michigan has registered 3,475 postconviction DNA and non-DNA exonerations since 1989—an average of 100 per year. Of …
False or Misleading Forensic Evidence Plays an Oversized Role in Wrongful Convictions by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The National Institute of Justice (“NIJ”) published a paper titled “The Impact of False or Misleading Forensic Evidence on Wrongful Convictions,” providing grim facts and figures on one of the …
A Lie Is Still a Lie, Even if the Speaker Genuinely Believes It by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi What did you eat for breakfast this morning? Most of us could answer that question – with a good deal of confidence in the accuracy of the answer. But what if, …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
Houston Cop from Fatal Raid Lied in Other Cases by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In October 2016, Frederick Jeffery was arrested for possession of two-and-a-half grams of methamphetamine, which he repeatedly stated did not belong to him. As a person with prior convictions, he knew it was a huge …
Publication • August 31, 2022
The Government's Use of Altered Evidence and False Testimony by FBI Personnel to Secure and Illegal Conviction, Aug 2022 Tully & Weiss Retired Attorneys at Law 713 Main Street, Martinez, CA 94553 FIAT JUSTIT IA RUA! CAELUM Phone: (925) 229-9700 * fax: (925) 231-7754 The Government’s Use of Altered Evidence …
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Announces Coty’s ‘Inference-of-Falsity’ Framework Extended to Apply to Police Officers With Established History of Falsifying Evidence in Drug Cases by Richard Resch by Richard Resch The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas announced that the inference-of-falsity framework set forth in Ex parte Coty,418 S.W.3d 597 …
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Cops in Virginia Beach Used Fake DNA Reports During Interrogations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Apparently, cops in Virginia Beach are not troubled by a lack of DNA evidence when investigating crimes. Their remedy is to simply create fake certificates of analysis (“COA”) purported to be from the Virginia …
Article • January 15, 2021 • from CLN February, 2021
Montana Supreme Court: Statistical Evidence on False Accusations of Rape Improperly Bolstered Witness Credibility by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso The Supreme Court of Montana ruled that the district court abused its discretion and denied defendant a fair trial by allowing expert witness testimony on statistics about false reports of …