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"A Killing That Won't Go Away" Jim Hill - Former Oregon Senator
| "Evidence of innocence is irrelevant." - Mary Sue Terry Former Attorney General Commonwealth of Virginia |
dredmundhiggins.com
In 1997, Dr. Edmund Higgins began compiling a database of wrongfully incarcerated people who have
been arrested and/or convicted of a crime and later proven innocent. As of July 2, 2003 the database
contained 360 people who were innocent, yet convicted of a crime - many were sentenced to death.
As Dr. Higgins explains, when a plane crashes, the FAA investigates; when a patient dies during
surgery, the hospital probes; if a patient adversely reacts to a vaccine, the physician is required to
report the occurrence to the CDC.
The criminal justice system does not operate this way. Many agencies exist to investigate crimes and
prosecute criminals, but no entity exists to investigate the injustice of wrongful conviction. Authorities
in the criminal justice system make no effort to collect, organize and review their mistakes.
The typical wrongfully convicted innocent is quietly released, with no ceremony, or apology, or
assurance that a similar mistake may be prevented in the future.
Wrongful Patterns
When the cases are categorized and reviewed, patterns emerge. Analysis shows that wrongful
convictions happen because of:
Be sure to visit Dr. Higgins's site, and check out his analysis.
Truth In Justice.Org
Truth in Justice is an educational non-profit organized to educate the public regarding the
vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make the criminal conviction of wholly innocent
persons possible.
THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER
If you do not know your rights well enough to demand them, you waive them. You would be naive to
believe that the courtroom is anything less than a sophisticated battlefield whereupon your adversary
attempts to disarm you while setting you up to lose whatever he can take from you. Until people learn
how to demand that their rights under law be recognized, they will continue to be slaughtered in the
courtroom. Until people become knowledgeable enough in the law to act as counsel for one another,
the justice industry will continue to prosper off the misery of the American people. Scott Thurston, the
Jailhouse Lawyer, can teach people how to defend themselves in court. He has also discovered the
key that unlocks a person's ability to have his choice of counsel.
Northwestern Law-Center on Wrongful Convictions
The Center on Wrongful Convictions is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions
and other serious miscarriages of justice. The Center has three components: representation,
research, and community services. Center faculty, staff, cooperating outside attorneys, and Bluhm
Legal Clinic students investigate possible wrongful convictions and represent imprisoned clients with
claims of actual innocence. The research component focuses on identifying systemic problems in the
criminal justice system and, together with the community services component, on developing
initiatives designed to raise public awareness of the prevalence, causes, and social costs of wrongful
convictions and promote reform of the criminal justice system. In addition, the community services
component helps exonerated former prisoners cope with the difficult process of reintegration into
free society.
The Wrongful Convictions Project
The Wrongful Convictions Project is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and
other serious miscarriages of justice.
The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, founded by
Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992, is a non-profit legal clinic and criminal justice resource
center. We work to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through postconviction DNA testing; and
develop and implement reforms to prevent wrongful convictions. This Project only handles cases
where postconviction DNA testing can yield conclusive proof of innocence.
The Wrongful Conviction Reading Room
Justice Denied
The Magazine for the Wrongly Convicted
Forejustice.org
Links to Wrongful Conviction Sites
www.justiceforkevin.org
In 1997, Dr. Edmund Higgins began compiling a database of wrongfully incarcerated people who have
been arrested and/or convicted of a crime and later proven innocent. As of July 2, 2003 the database
contained 360 people who were innocent, yet convicted of a crime - many were sentenced to death.
As Dr. Higgins explains, when a plane crashes, the FAA investigates; when a patient dies during
surgery, the hospital probes; if a patient adversely reacts to a vaccine, the physician is required to
report the occurrence to the CDC.
The criminal justice system does not operate this way. Many agencies exist to investigate crimes and
prosecute criminals, but no entity exists to investigate the injustice of wrongful conviction. Authorities
in the criminal justice system make no effort to collect, organize and review their mistakes.
The typical wrongfully convicted innocent is quietly released, with no ceremony, or apology, or
assurance that a similar mistake may be prevented in the future.
Wrongful Patterns
When the cases are categorized and reviewed, patterns emerge. Analysis shows that wrongful
convictions happen because of:
- Erroneous Eyewitness Identification
- False Confession
- False Informant
- Official Misconduct
- Rigid Thinking
Be sure to visit Dr. Higgins's site, and check out his analysis.
Truth In Justice.Org
Truth in Justice is an educational non-profit organized to educate the public regarding the
vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make the criminal conviction of wholly innocent
persons possible.
THE JAILHOUSE LAWYER
If you do not know your rights well enough to demand them, you waive them. You would be naive to
believe that the courtroom is anything less than a sophisticated battlefield whereupon your adversary
attempts to disarm you while setting you up to lose whatever he can take from you. Until people learn
how to demand that their rights under law be recognized, they will continue to be slaughtered in the
courtroom. Until people become knowledgeable enough in the law to act as counsel for one another,
the justice industry will continue to prosper off the misery of the American people. Scott Thurston, the
Jailhouse Lawyer, can teach people how to defend themselves in court. He has also discovered the
key that unlocks a person's ability to have his choice of counsel.
Northwestern Law-Center on Wrongful Convictions
The Center on Wrongful Convictions is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions
and other serious miscarriages of justice. The Center has three components: representation,
research, and community services. Center faculty, staff, cooperating outside attorneys, and Bluhm
Legal Clinic students investigate possible wrongful convictions and represent imprisoned clients with
claims of actual innocence. The research component focuses on identifying systemic problems in the
criminal justice system and, together with the community services component, on developing
initiatives designed to raise public awareness of the prevalence, causes, and social costs of wrongful
convictions and promote reform of the criminal justice system. In addition, the community services
component helps exonerated former prisoners cope with the difficult process of reintegration into
free society.
The Wrongful Convictions Project
The Wrongful Convictions Project is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and
other serious miscarriages of justice.
The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, founded by
Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992, is a non-profit legal clinic and criminal justice resource
center. We work to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through postconviction DNA testing; and
develop and implement reforms to prevent wrongful convictions. This Project only handles cases
where postconviction DNA testing can yield conclusive proof of innocence.
The Wrongful Conviction Reading Room
Justice Denied
The Magazine for the Wrongly Convicted
Forejustice.org
Links to Wrongful Conviction Sites
www.justiceforkevin.org
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