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Brandeis Innocence Week starts today
Posted: November 12, 2007 7:00 am
The Brandeis University Innocence Club begins a week of events today aimed at raising awareness of the causes of wrongful conviction. The student group has planned events from Monday through Thursday this week, including a speech by Neil Miller, who spent nine years in Massachusetts prison for a rape he didn’t commit. Dick Lehr, a journalist who has covered wrongful convictions for the Boston Globe, will also speak Thursday. Group members will be asking students throughout the week to sign a petition calling for the records of exonerees to be expunged.
By hosting Innocence Week, (club president Kate) Millerick hopes to “educate the Brandeis community and let them know that this actually happens. It could happen to any of us, it could happen to anyone that we know. It’s a really serious issue that we all are very passionate about and we just want to sort of share that passion with Brandeis students and faculty and let them know that this issue exists and maybe some of them will be inspired to join the club, or even the Innocence Project on campus.”Events this week at Brandeis are open the public. Click here for a full schedule of events.
Read the full story here. (Brandeis Hoot, 11/09/07)
Visit the Brandeis Innocence Week Facebook page. The Innocence Project community on Facebook is growing every day, join our cause page here: www.inncoenceproject.org/facebook.
Want to host an Innocence Week at your high school or college? Contact us at info@innocenceproject.org for more information.
Tags: Neil Miller
Massachusetts man marks eight years of freedom
Posted: May 9, 2008 3:32 pm
Neil Miller spent almost the entire 1990s in Massachusetts prison for a rape he didn’t commit before DNA testing proved his innocence and led to his exoneration on May 10, 2000. Tomorrow, he marks the eighth anniversary of his release.
Miller is one of more than 160 exonerees whose wrongful convictions were caused, at least in part, by eyewitness misidentification. The victim in Miller’s case identified him in a book of mug shots, and again at trial. He claimed his innocence throughout the ordeal but was convicted and sentenced to 26-45 years.
Read more about Miller’s case here.
Other exoneration anniversaries this week:
Sunday: Glen Woodall, West Virginia (Served 4.5 years, Exonerated 05/04/92)
Wednesday: Jeffrey Pierce, Oklahoma (Served 14.5 years, Exonerated 05/07/01)
Tags: Neil Miller, Jeffrey Pierce, Glen Woodall