Leila E Leveille·2d agoWrongful Convictions and Prosecutorial Misconduct.Wrongful convictions are a serious issue within the United States criminal justice system. While the justice system is designed to protect…
J Cosmo Newbery·5d agoThe Jabberwocky — The Case for the Defence.I felt it was time to correct a great wrong in children’s literature: the maligning of the Jabberwock. Apoplogies to Lewis Carroll.
Ganiyu Aishat·Oct 14After the Prison Gates Open: What Happens When Freedom Is Not Enough?Imagine spending 24 years in prison for a crime you did not commit.A response icon1A response icon1
The Forgotten Archive·Sep 21He Confessed to an Impossible Crime — They Hanged Him AnywayHe confessed to a crime, in a place he’d never been, using a method that was physically impossible. Nobody at his trial believed he’d…
InILLUMINATIONbyDr. Janine Bouey·Sep 17The One They Printed and the One They Didn’tIn 1776, a Black soldier wrote the case against slavery. Nobody read it for 207 years. In 1820, he wrote about a white man wrongly…A response icon2A response icon2
Alex Sterling·Sep 16The Closet Door Conundrum: Did Sandra Melger Stage a Massacre on Her 32nd Anniversary?A brutal stabbing, a staged scene, and the medical mystery that divided a nation: The conviction of Sandra Melger.A response icon1A response icon1
Garythatcher·Sep 6The Sam Sheppard Story: Murder, Media, and the Trial That Changed American Law.On the morning of July 4, 1954, in the quiet, affluent Cleveland suburb of Bay Village, Ohio, a young mother named Marilyn Reese Sheppard…
Tree John·Sep 1Trap at 18: How a Virginia small-town court engineered an adult record to strip my rights, and how…I am writing this because I feel completely exhausted, hopeless, and trapped by a system that has had its boot on my neck since I was a…
Nikita Gomes·Aug 11Confession Specialist: The Norfolk Four, the Detective Who Built a Case from Nothing, and the Man…On July 8, 1997, a nineteen-year-old sailor came home from a week at sea and found his wife dead. He knocked on his neighbour’s door for…
