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National Public Radio: DNA Evidence Frees 200th Prisoner
Posted: April 5, 2007 7:00 am
Yesterday's NPR News & Notes featured an interview with Jerry Miller, the 200th person exonerated by DNA evidence. Also featured on the show were Innocence Project Barry Scheck, who said that an African-American man charged with sexual assault by a white woman (as Miller was) is still in the most dangerous place in the American legal system and a feature on documentary film "The Trials of Darryl Hunt." The film premieres on HBO tomorrow night (April 26th) at 8 p.m. Click here to watch a trailer.
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Watch and listen: The Innocence Project in the news
Posted: May 8, 2007
Yesterday, Innocence Project Co-Director Peter Neufeld, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins, exoneree Dennis Fritz and eyewitness identification expert Gary Wells joined host Warren Olney on National Public Radio’s “To The Point” to discuss the 200 DNA exonerations to date and criminal justice reforms underway nationwide. Click here to listen online or download a podcast.
Jerry Miller, who was exonerated April 23rd in Chicago after serving 24 years in prison and one year on parole for a crime he didn’t commit, was interviewed on this week’s episode of PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal. Click here to watch.
Miller is the 200th person exonerated by DNA testing nationwide. The Innocence Project launched a month-long awareness campaign to prevent these injustices from happening again. Read more breaking news and discover multimedia resources in our special section: 200 Exonerated, Too Many Wrongfully Convicted.
Tags: Dennis Fritz, Jerry Miller
NPR: Jerry Miller comes a long way home
Posted: July 9, 2007 1:52 pm
In April, Jerry Miller became the 200th person nationwide to be exonerated by DNA evidence when a Chicago judge overturned the rape conviction for which Miller had served 24 years. On Chicago Public Radio today, Miller discusses his case and his life after exoneration.
Click here to listen online or download an MP3 of the story. (Chicago Public Radio, 07/09/07)
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200th Exoneree Tonight on Colbert Report
Posted: August 14, 2007 10:50 am
Jerry Miller. the 200th person exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States, will join Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central's Colbert Report tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET. Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck was Colbert's guest in 2006. Watch Scheck's interview here.
Read more about Jerry Miller's case.
Read more about the Colbert Report, and find your local airtime here.
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Hear the Innocence Project on Blue Herald Radio
Posted: August 14, 2007 12:19 pm
Listen to exoneree Robert Clark and Innocence Project staffer Matt Kelley on Blue Herald Radio, an online radio show available here. Clark talks with host Jim Swanson about spending 24 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit and Kelley discusses how you can help the Innocence Project by spreading the word online.
Listen online – or download an mp3 file – here.
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Watch Exoneree Jerry Miller on the Colbert Report
Posted: August 15, 2007 1:50 pm
Jerry Miller, who was exonerated in Illinois after serving 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, told Stephen Colbert last night that states should grant access to DNA testing for prisoners trying to prove their innocence. Miller, who was the 200th person in the U.S. to be exonerated through DNA testing, said he is now rebuilding his life and looking forward to being compensated for his wrongful conviction.
Watch the interview here.
Watch Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck on the Colbert Report.
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New video: Three minutes with Illinois exoneree Jerry Miller
Posted: November 13, 2007 11:05 am
In a video posted today, Innocence Project client Jerry Miller discusses the 24 years he spent in prison for a rape he didn't commit. Miller's conviction was caused in part by the misidentifications of two eyewitnesses, a factor that was involved in more than 75% of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing.
Click the link below to watch the video on our site, or visit our YouTube page for more Innocence Project videos.
An interview with Illinois exoneree Jerry Miller [video: 03:35]
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Putting the pieces back together: Illinois exoneree talks about his first year of freedom
Posted: October 8, 2008 12:20 pm
Jerry Miller spent nearly 25 years in Illinois prison for a rape he didn’t commit, and one year on parole as a registered sex offender, before DNA testing obtained by attorneys at the Innocence Project proved his innocence. On April 23, 2007, he became the 200th person exonerated by DNA testing in U.S. history. Yesterday, he spoke to a meeting of criminal defense lawyers in Champaign, Illinois.
"If you just be realistic about life, what in life is perfect?" the 50-year-old man asked a room full of defense attorneys. "Struggle makes character."Miller says it has been difficult readjusting to society after his release, but he’s getting on track now. He recently started attending a truck driving school to train for work as a driver.
"The system is not perfect, and I'm a prime example of that," Miller told the attorneys. "I never gave up. You lose hope but you can't never give up."
Read the full story here. (Urbana-Champaign News-Gazette, 10/08/08)
Read more about life after exoneration here.
Watch a three-minute video interview with Miller.
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Struggling to Be Free
Posted: January 28, 2009 5:50 pm
A story on the front page of today’s USA Today examines the lives of exonerees after release, when not even conclusive proof of innocence can completely wash away the stigma of being in prison for decades.
Charles Chatman, 48, a Dallas-area man freed last year after 26 years in prison, tells of his "shame" in dealing with family members, many of them women, after his wrongful conviction — and even his exoneration — for aggravated rape.Learn more about the issues exonerees face after release here.
Other exonerees, such as Jerry Miller, 50, of suburban Chicago, carry court papers as commonly as driver's licenses to prove to potential employers and others that their convictions were overturned. Miller was convicted in the 1981 rape and kidnapping of a Chicago woman and spent 24 years in prison. He finished his sentence before being exonerated. In 2007, a year after his parole, he was cleared by DNA testing of the victim's clothes.
Illinois officials required him to register as a sex offender and attend counseling after his release but before his exoneration.
"My picture was on the Internet," he says of the required photo on the public sex offender registry. "I thought prison was bad. But (outside) I was like the scum of the earth." Illinois officials have since removed him from the state's database.
Read the full story here – and join the conversation going on in USA Today’s comments section.
Tags: Johnny Briscoe, Charles Chatman, Jerry Miller
Jerry Miller Marks Two Years of Freedom
Posted: April 23, 2009 12:17 pm
Today is the second anniversary of the day Jerry Miller was exonerated in Chicago, becoming the 200th person proven innocent by DNA testing in the United States.
Miller was convicted in 1982 of a rape and robbery he didn’t commit. The crime victim helped police create a composite sketch of the perpetrator and Miller became a suspect after a Chicago police officer saw him on the street allegedly looking into parked cars and said he resembled the sketch. Although the victim did not identify Miller, two other witnesses identified him as the perpetrator.
After serving more than 24 years of a 45-year sentence, Miller was released on parole in 2006 as a registered sex offender. The Innocence Project obtained DNA testing in his case in 2005 – the results proved Miller’s innocence and implicated another man in the crime. On April 23, 2007, he became the 200th person exonerated by DNA testing in the United States. He was pardoned in October 2008.
Miller frequently speaks to audiences and the media about his case and causes of wrongful convictions. On May 1, he is scheduled to speak with Barry Scheck at the GEL Conference in New York.
Other Exoneration Anniversaries This Week:
Tuesday: Anthony Woods, Missouri (Served 18 years, Exonerated 4/21/05)
Thursday: Anthony Hicks, Wisconsin (Served 5 years, Exonerated 4/23/97)
Walter Snyder (Served 6.5 years, Exonerated 4/23/93)
Friday: Hector Gonzalez (Served 5.5 years, Exonerated 4/24/02), Ray Krone (Served 10 years, Exonerated 4/24/02)
Saturday: David Shephard (Served 9.5 years, Exonerated 4/25/95)
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Friday Roundup: Reviewing Injustice
Posted: May 1, 2009 6:09 pm
New York’s chief judge announced today that the state’s Court of Appeals is creating a task force to review exoneration cases and recommend possible reforms to prevent injustice. Here’s more coverage since we posted earlier today.
Texas has a similar judicial task force, and representatives are seeking to create a more robust panel in the legislature named after exoneree Timothy Cole.
North Carolina has another kind of task force to investigate possible wrongful convictions. The state’s House of Representatives this week voted to expand the group’s reach – giving it power to force witnesses to testify.
A proposed law in Colorado to repeal the death penalty and use resources to instead investigate cold cases in the state made progress in the Senate today but still faced an uncertain future.
Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto will host a conference on forensic evidence in criminal proceedings and avoiding wrongful convictions next Saturday, May 9.
A conference today in Dallas brought together exonerees for a discussion of the challenges of life after exoneration.
Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck and exoneree Jerry Miller spoke today at the GEL Conference in New York City. And exoneree William Dillion spoke about his case and the need for reforms yesterday in Wellington, Florida.
And an article in the Missourian checked in with Josh Kezer, who was freed two months ago when new evidence pointed to his innocence.
Tags: Jerry Miller, Innocence Commissions
New Video: Discussing Innocence and Exoneration
Posted: August 6, 2009 10:40 am
Innocence Project Co-Director Barry Scheck and exoneree Jerry Miller spent a half hour onstage at the GEL 2009 conference in New York City. They discussed the stunning details of Miller’s wrongful conviction in 1982 and his adjustment to life since his exoneration in 2007.
Watch the full video here.
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Anniversaries Mark the 100th and 200th DNA Exonerations
Posted: April 23, 2010 4:50 pm
His first conviction was overturned, but another jury found Krone guilty. The judge refused to sentence him to death, saying "the court is left with a residual or lingering doubt about the clear identity of the killer." Finally, in 2002, Krone’s appellate attorney obtained access to biological evidence that prosecutors had claimed to have lost. The results excluded Krone and implicated another man as the real perpetrator. Read more about Krone’s case here, and learn about other wrongful convictions based on faulty bite mark analysis.
Jerry Miller, who was exonerated three years ago today after serving nearly a quarter-century in Illinois prisons, was wrongfully convicted based almost exclusively on eyewitness misidentification, the leading cause of wrongful convictions overturned through DNA. Read more about his case here.
Other Exoneree Anniversaries This Week:
Walter Snyder, Virginia (Served 6.5 Years, Exonerated 4/23/93)
Anthony D. Woods, Missouri (Served 18 years, Exonerated, 4/21/05)
Anthony Hicks, Wisconsin (Served 5 Years, Exonerated 4/23/97)
Hector Gonzalez, New York (Served 5.5 Years, Exonerated 4/24/02)
Tags: Jerry Miller