Innocence Blog

Friday Roundup: Free, but Still Fighting

Posted: May 27, 2011 12:10 pm

The Texas Observer this week profiled several Dallas exonerees who have fought to free fellow innocent prisoners and to reform the state’s system to prevent future injustice.

An Ohio judge granted post-conviction DNA testing to a man who claims the results will prove his innocence in a 1987 murder.

The Utah Attorney General announced that he would appeal the exoneration of Debra Brown, who was freed two weeks ago after being found “factually innocent” of a shooting murder. She served 16 years in prison before being released.

Innocence Project client Frank Sterling is finally free, but his wrongful conviction continues to haunt him,

Senate Republicans in North Carolina proposed a budget that provides moving oversight of the State Bureau of Investigation and its crime lab to a newly-created Department of Public Safety.


Writing in the New York Times, George Washington University Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen called Brandon Garrett's new book "Convicting the Innocent" "a gripping contribution to the literature of injustice, along with a galvanizing call for reform." Buy the book here and watch the video on eyewitness misidentification we co-produced with Garrett.