A bill reinstating peremptory challenges would end an important experiment in Arizona to fight racial discrimination in courtroom.
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Black Man Wins New Trial Over Confederate Memorabilia in Jury Room
A Tennessee appeals court granted Tim Gilbert a new trial after jurors deliberated in a room named after the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Innocence Fears Raised in High-Court Case Claiming Bad Lawyering
Featured on Bloomberg Law – https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/innocence-fears-raised-in-high-court-case-claiming-bad-lawyering Two men sitting on Arizona’s death row say they face execution because they had […]
Traumatized witnesses and victims of police violence get shut out of compensation funds
Too often, direct victims and witnesses of police violence are excluded from victim compensation funds. That needs to change.
Transforming Wrongful Convictions
Exonerations occur when a person convicted of a crime is officially cleared based on new evidence of innocence. Since 1989, there […]
WNBA star Brittney Griner seen by U.S. consulate in Russian detention facility
Listen to this story: The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy official has visited with WNBA star […]
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