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The latest from Ajay’s case and the movement behind it.
Our Overcrowded Prisons
The April 22, 2012 CBS story titled The Cost of a Nation of Incarceration shows the conditions of overcrowding in this countries’ prisons. In California the overcrowding was so extensive…
The Veritas Initiative Report on Prosecutorial Misconduct
The Veritas Initiative, a project of the Northern California Innocence Project, has performed the most extensive research on prosecutorial misconduct. Their research of over 4,000 public prosecutors i
Judge Says Legal System Is Corrupt
In 2003, Judge Edith Jones of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit gave a speech at the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School in which she states…
U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections
The U.S. Department Justice National Institute of Corrections has a state by state list of programs for families of adult offenders. You can find the list of organizations on their…
Eyewitness Misidentification
The United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, admits that statistically 8 to 12% of all state prisoners are either actually or factually innocent. If this statement alone isn’
Ajay’s Tragedy
[caption id="attachment_63" align="alignleft" width=""] Ajay and his son in June 2008[/caption] Ajay Dev was born in Kathmandu Nepal. His father and mother were born and grew up in Southern Nepal and
Death Penalty Focus
Death Penalty Focus is one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the country. It was founded in 1988 with the belief that the death penalty is an ineffective, cruel, and simplistic…
Many More Exonerations and False Convictions than Previously Found, But Only “the Tip of the Iceberg”
There have been over 2000 exonerations of wrongful convictions in the past 23 years and that number is growing every year. The problems with these wrongful convictions can be false…
Are Eyewitness Accounts Wrong A Quarter Of The Time?
This is an article on the Vanguard Court Watch of Yolo County by David Greenwald discussing the problems with eyewitness testimony. This article recounts the case of Franky Carillo who…
National Uniform Disclosure Standards
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a bi-partisan bill to help standardize disclosure laws throughout the country. Right now there are 96 different policies when it comes to this vital issue.…
The Truth About Solitary Confinement
Even though solitary confinement has extensive physical and psychological negative effects on people, there are about 80,000 inmates held in solitary confinement in the U.S. The cost to house inmates…
Freedom On June 29, 2012 After Enduring 17 Years Of Wrongful Conviction (2)
LaMonte Armstrong suffered 17 years of injustice and finally won his freedom with the help of Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic (an Innocence Project). His conviction of murder was…