Forensic Justice Project

@jessicaschulb reporting on the continuing fight for compensation for Exonerees in Oregon: huffpost.com/entry/oregon-w…

On Wednesday, Jesse Johnson -- a man who spent years on death row in #Oregon -- was freed after losing 19 years of freedom. #DNA evidence was not a match and a witness who saw a white man leaving the crime scene was never called. cbsnews.com/news/jesse-joh…

Open access for 3 mths! JARMAC article with @brandonlgarrett, @WlliamCrozierIV, et al. assessing whether eyewitness face memory tests might be useful for sorting between accurate and inaccurate eyewitnesses, esp. when combined with confidence judgments. psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-79…

Former Army sergeant Chris Lyman spent nearly 10 years behind bars for killing a baby who actually died of pneumonia. From Melinda Henneberger: kansascity.com/opinion/opn-co…

Highly recommend watching @victimsuspect on Netflix. Great reporting by @raeoflion highlighting how confirmation bias, tunnel vision and improper interviewing techniques lead to miscarriages of justice. A few key takeaways...

Extra proud of these two this wknd! Prison to law school grads! ⁦@lclarklaw⁩ #CJRClinic

Even in the face of overwhelming evidence that those technologies aren’t reliable, “courts are still reluctant not to allow it or to overturn a case” based on such lines of evidence because of the long precedent of their use…. nytimes.com/2023/05/15/sci…

Update:US Mag.Judge John V Acosta to OR: “If state does not retry Mr. Gable within 10 days of today, you are done with him.” State DOJ says Marion Cty DA won’t retry him in next 10 days but wants to reserve right to rearrest/retry him in future.(1/2) oregonlive.com/crime/2023/04/…

US Supreme Court denies Oregon’s petition to reverse or take argument challenging Frank Gable׳s release and the vacating of his conviction in the 1989 murder of state Corrections Director Michael Francke. ( court order said Justice Kavanaugh favored granting state’s petition)

Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud. So how did he get away with it for so long? @gauveyherbert reports trib.al/dRtRRFX

New @gauveyherbert banger: “You have earned one’s distrust that merits severing any contact with you in the future,” he wrote me, veering into strange pronoun usage. “Under no circumstances would himself cooperate in your suspicious activities.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…

INT. OFFICE - MARCH 2022 Dave (talking to self): Oh wow, this guy is amazing. It says here he’s the “living Sherlock Holmes.” Narrator (VO): He wasn’t. My latest for @NYMag nymag.com/intelligencer/…

2023 Legal Rebels - Freedom Fight: Working tirelessly to free her brother from prison inspired Janis Puracal’s Forensic Justice Project. ow.ly/B3XY50N8pSP #LegalRebels @mreynoldswriter @LegalRebels @ForensicJustice @JanisPuracal

2023 Legal Rebels - Freedom Fight: Working tirelessly to free her brother from prison inspired Janis Puracal’s Forensic Justice Project. ow.ly/B3XY50N8pSP #LegalRebels @mreynoldswriter @LegalRebels @ForensicJustice @JanisPuracal

New podcast about the lack of "science" behind forensics and the many individuals who have been wrongfully convicted as a result. First episode of "CSI on Trial" is out today: link.chtbl.com/csiontrial And the docuseries is coming on March 23!

In 1982, Calvin Duncan was arrested for murder based on a mistaken cross-racial eyewitness identification. He was wrongfully incarcerated for the next 28 years—during which time he worked as a self-taught “jailhouse lawyer” for 20 cents per hour, helping fellow inmates. (1/3)

Texas death-row prisoner Hank Skinner, who had long pursued DNA testing to prove his innocence, has died on death row from complications following surgery to remove a brain tumor. @TexDefender @TCADPdotORG @WTIUSA @innocence

CONGRATS 2023 @LegalRebels @JanisPuracal of @ForensicJustice #legaltech #lawtwitter abajournal.com/legalrebels/ar…