Innocence Blog

Friday Roundup

Posted: November 28, 2008 4:40 pm

Innocence news from around the country this week:

A federal judge refused to disqualify herself from the civil case of exoneree Ulysses Rodriguez Charles after the city of Boston alleged that she displayed “favoritism” toward Charles.
 
The Albuquerque Police Department is running ads in a local paper seeking informants. As most Innocence Blog readers know, snitch testimony is a major cause of wrongful convictions, and paid or incentivized informants are at the center of the problem. 

Irish photographer Denis Minihane won a Justice Media award for his shots of Innocence Project client Walter Swift.

Professors at the University of Texas at Arlington received a grant to study the reentry process for the exonerated. 

Innocence Project of Florida client Jimmy Ates will have a hearing December 17 on his petition to overturn his conviction for a murder he says he didn’t commit. 

And North Carolina defendant Ronnie Wallace Long was back in court this week in his continuing quest to clear his name of a 1976 rape.