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Actual Innocence awareness database

Actual Innocence awareness database

About the “Actual Innocence awareness” website: The Actual Innocence awareness database lists selected United States resources pertaining to wrongful convictions, selected from the popular media (such as newspaper articles and segments which aired on television news magazines), journal articles, books, reports, legislation and websites. The selected materials are classified into subtopics considered the primary causes of wrongful conviction: forensics/DNA; eyewitness identification; false confessions; jailhouse informants; police and/or prosecutorial misconduct; and ineffective representation. There is also a “general” category for those materials which cover multiple subtopics or defy further categorization. New resources will be posted as they become available, and will be displayed on the website home page for two weeks; resources will then be classified and available by subtopic. URLs for popular media items (to the extent they are available) will drop off after two weeks in an effort to avoid broken links. This page is RSS-enabled. Subscribe to the RSS feed using a feed reader, or RSS-enabled browser (Firefox, Safari, or IE 7) to receive automatic notices of updates. The RSS feed address is http://tarlton.webhost.utexas.edu/innocence/rss.cfm. Article titles link to images of each article's first page, when available. The Library provides this service under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law. Only the first page of an article will be scanned, and images will be deleted after two weeks. This service is for non-commercial, educational purposes only. If you have any questions or comments about this service, please contact , Head of student services at the Tarlton Law Library.

Click article title to view a .pdf file of its first page (when available).
Items are listed alphabetically in reverse chronological order:

November 23, 2009

Title:   Editorial, CSI: Texas Citation:  Hous. Chron., November 17, 2009. URL:  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6725914.html Author:  Eligon, John Title:   Hope for the Wrongfully Convicted Citation:  N.Y. Times, November 23, 2009, at A23. Author:  Hall, Dee J. Title:   Madison Man, Who Has Served More Than Six Years in Prison, is Ordered Released Citation:  Wisconsin State Journal, November 13, 2009. URL:  http://tinyurl.com/ykwgj7d

November 13, 2009

Author:  Eligon, John Title:   Man Jailed for '91 Murder Is Cleared by Judge Citation:  N.Y. Times, November 13, 2009, at A1. Author:  Garrett, Robert T. Title:   Forensics Panel Overhaul May Delay Arson Inquiry for Years, Ex-Official Says Citation:  Dallas Morning News, November 12, 2009. URL:  http://tinyurl.com/y8d2wdf

November 11, 2009

Author:  Barrett, Joe Title:   Did Students Pay Witnesses? Citation:  Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2009, at A3. Author:  Garvey, Georgia Title:   Northwestern Students Paid Witnesses, Prosecutors Allege Citation:  Chi. Trib., November 11, 2009. URL:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-northwestern-innocence-projenov11,0,5621670.story