Exoneree Ted Bradford from Washington State spoke about his experience on false confessions last Friday at the Annual Conference for Washington Defender Association.
On September 29, 1995, a woman was raped in her home in Yakima, Washington. Six months later, on April 1, 1996, Bradford was arrested on an unrelated charge.
The detectives interrogated Bradford for over eight hours and obtained his confession to the crime.
Colorado Man to Be Released Today Posted: April 30, 2012 12:30 pm Innocence Project client Robert Dewey is expected to be released today from the Mesa County Courthouse after DNA testing proved his innocence in a 1994 Grand Junction murder. It will be the first DNA exoneration in the state. District Attorney Pete Hautzinger has joined the Innocence Project and other defense counsel in seeking Dewey’s release.
Colorado Man to Be Released Today Posted: April 30, 2012 12:30 pm Innocence Project client Robert Dewey is expected to be released today from the Mesa County Courthouse after DNA testing proved his innocence in a 1994 Grand Junction murder. It will be the first DNA exoneration in the state. District Attorney Pete Hautzinger has joined the Innocence Project and other defense counsel in seeking Dewey’s release. MSNBC reports: Dewey consistently maintained his innocence. At Dewey’s original sentencing, then-Mesa County District Judge Charles Buss was quoted in local media as telling the defendant that, “I am happy to impose it (a life sentence) on you.”
Dewey replied: “There’s still a killer out there.” See the MSNBC coverage.
Missouri Attorney General Opposes Justice for George Allen George Allen has served 30 years for a 1982 murder and rape in St. Louis, Missouri. Allen, who is schizophrenic, was originally arrested because police mistook him for a convicted sex offender who was a suspect in the case. Rather than let Allen go, they interrogated him anyway, eventually obtaining a confession that even one of the…
Figures released by UNICEF in 2010 showed that more than 20% of adolescent children in Belarus suffered from disabilities and chronic illness. Belarus absorbed 70% of Chernobyl's fallout.....
VIDEOS http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/iyw-chernobyl-children/?hpt=wo_mid 26 years on: helping Chernobyl's children, By Katie Walmsley, CNN April 25, 2012 Chernobyl refuses to be relegated to the past. Indeed it may still be devastating the lives of millions who continue to live in the fallout zone.
