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Friday Roundup: Police Misconduct, Recording Interrogations and a New Latin American Innocence Project
Posted: October 15, 2010 5:25 pm
A Virginia man convicted of rape in 1997 is hoping to have his conviction overturned based on a detective's history of police misconduct.
An editorial in the Hartford Courant argues that electronic recording of interrogations should be mandatory.
Florida prosecutors are trying to delay a murder trial to prevent eyewitness testimony because they believe eyewitness identification hasn't reached the scientific level required to be admitted in court.
The National Institute of Justice gave more than $1 million to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to study handwriting characteristics and bloodstain patterns, two forms of fairly subjective evidence, according to the 2009 National Academy of Sciences report.
California Western School of Law is launching Inocente!, the first Latin American Innocence Project, focused on the release of the wrongfully convicted and reforming laws that lead to wrongful conviction.