Friday, April 25, 2025

Scott Peterson: Calfornia: Mercury News; Bulletin: (Reporter Julia Prodis Sulek) reports on an"extraordinary declaration' made in seeking a new trial, which is an exhibit in a 'petition' by the Los Angeles Innocence Project, which took on Peterson’s appeal more than a year ago…"The 854-page petition is so large — at 176,186 words it’s seven times the size limit accepted by the court — that his defense lawyers will seek a waiver Friday. “There is a lot to say here,” John Sonego, board chair of the LA Innocence Project said in an interview this week. “I do believe the writ as submitted clearly demonstrates sufficient proof that he was innocent.”



PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The petition attempts to make the larger case that Modesto Police disregarded the real murderers, likely men who robbed the house across the street from the Peterson’s Modesto home, who they allege kidnapped Laci after Peterson went fishing on Christmas Day. It contends they held Laci for days, then tossed her body in the bay to frame Peterson whose alibi was by then well known. The body of Laci and her unborn son washed up separately along the Richmond shoreline four months later after a storm churned up the bay. The Innocence Project says it has new experts and new science that confirm the same claim offered during the original trial, that baby Conner’s size when found proved Laci lived for days after Christmas, which, if true, could exonerate Peterson. Last year, a San Mateo County judge ruled against many of those arguments. But Peterson’s declaration itself, in which he includes photos taken in Carmel a week before the tragedy, focuses on refuting a host of smaller details that Stanislaus County prosecutors said added up to murder. That account, however, could open him up for the first time to cross examination on the witness stand. Former prosecutor Michael Cardoza, who conducted a practice cross examination of Peterson at the request of his defense lawyers during his 2004 trial, said it’s a risk the Innocence Project appears willing to take. “You may not do well on the stand,” Cardoza said, “but damn, you’re getting up there because that’s our last hope.”

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STORY: "Convicted killer Scott Peterson says “I loved my wife very much” in extraordinary declaration seeking new trial," by Reporter Julia Prodis Sulek, published by Mercury News, on April 24, 2025. (Julia Prodis Sulek is a Bay Area News Group reporter specializing in breaking news and narrative storytelling at her hometown paper, the Mercury News, and the East Bay Times. She has covered everything from plane crashes to presidential campaigns, murder trials to NBA Finals and nearly every major wildfire in Northern California for the past decade. She was part of the team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of Oakland’s Ghost Ship fire and has been a Pulitzer finalist in feature writing. She wrote an award-winning six-part narrative series “Hanging: the mysterious case of the boy in the barn,” and narrated a companion podcast. Before joining the Mercury News, she worked for The Associated Press in Cheyenne, Detroit and Dallas. She is a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with BS degree in journalism.)


SUB-HEADING: "In appeal for new trial, Peterson explains how his “brave face” led people to believe he killed pregnant wife Laci."


GIST: "During Scott Peterson’s notorious five-month trial 21 years ago, he never took the witness stand to defend himself against charges he murdered his pregnant wife, Laci, and threw her body in the San Francisco Bay so he could be free to carry on with his massage-therapist mistress from Fresno.

Back in 2004, he left it to high-profile lawyer Mark Geragos to tell the jury why he was “stone cold innocent.” Except for a prison interview last year for a Peacock docuseries that provided few revelations, statements two decades earlier while Laci was still missing, and a disastrous interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer in which he claimed his affair was known to his wife and had little effect on their “glorious” marriage, Peterson has said little publicly about his case.

But in an extraordinary and detailed 126-page, first-person declaration tucked into his latest appeal for a new trial, Peterson attempted to explain, point by point, the circumstantial case against him that convinced a jury he was guilty.

“I have lived with the pain of my poor judgment for 23 years, and I will continue to live with that shame for the rest of my life,” Peterson wrote of his affair with Amber Frey, but “I was in no way responsible for Laci’s disappearance or her death or that of our son, Conner.”

At times self-reflective and at times defiant, Peterson’s declaration after two decades in prison — most of those on Death Row — offers his most detailed version of a story that continues to capture international attention. The 52-year-old who grew up in privilege in San Diego, played high school golf with Phil Mickelson and graduated from Cal Poly before moving to Modesto to sell fertilizer for a living, addresses a character trait the media often seized upon and jurors found off-putting: aloofness.

“I was frantic and grieving,” Peterson wrote about the aftermath of Laci’s Christmas Eve disappearance in 2002. “In public, I tried to put on a brave face and that was apparently inconsistent with what a grieving husband ‘should’ have been showing. My public demeanor was put on national display and characterized as evidence of guilt.

Peterson’s declaration is Exhibit 19 of a petition by the Los Angeles Innocence Project, which took on Peterson’s appeal more than a year ago. The 854-page petition is so large — at 176,186 words it’s seven times the size limit accepted by the court — that his defense lawyers will seek a waiver Friday.

“There is a lot to say here,” John Sonego, board chair of the LA Innocence Project said in an interview this week. “I do believe the writ as submitted clearly demonstrates sufficient proof that he was innocent.”

The Stanislaus County District Attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the case, is waiting for the petition to be formally filed before responding, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Wendell Emerson. He declined to comment on its substance.

The petition attempts to make the larger case that Modesto Police disregarded the real murderers, likely men who robbed the house across the street from the Peterson’s Modesto home, who they allege kidnapped Laci after Peterson went fishing on Christmas Day. It contends they held Laci for days, then tossed her body in the bay to frame Peterson whose alibi was by then well known.

The body of Laci and her unborn son washed up separately along the Richmond shoreline four months later after a storm churned up the bay. The Innocence Project says it has new experts and new science that confirm the same claim offered during the original trial, that baby Conner’s size when found proved Laci lived for days after Christmas, which, if true, could exonerate Peterson.

Last year, a San Mateo County judge ruled against many of those arguments.

But Peterson’s declaration itself, in which he includes photos taken in Carmel a week before the tragedy, focuses on refuting a host of smaller details that Stanislaus County prosecutors said added up to murder.

That account, however, could open him up for the first time to cross examination on the witness stand. Former prosecutor Michael Cardoza, who conducted a practice cross examination of Peterson at the request of his defense lawyers during his 2004 trial, said it’s a risk the Innocence Project appears willing to take.

“You may not do well on the stand,” Cardoza said, “but damn, you’re getting up there because that’s our last hope.”

In Peterson’s declaration, he addresses a number of circumstances that police found suspicious, including:

  • He threw his clothes immediately into the washing machine when he came home from the marina because when he and Laci owned a burger restaurant in San Luis Obispo, where they met in college, “it became a habit of mine to put my work clothes straight into the washer … The prosecution nevertheless told the jury in closing arguments at trial that the fact that I washed my clothes was evidence of my guilt.”
  • When police asked what he had been fishing for and he could only say “a prehistoric looking fish,” he said that “I could not immediately find the word ‘sturgeon’ in my head … With everything going on the day that Laci turned up missing … I felt a little overwhelmed.”
  • Although at least one neighbor told police that Peterson said he had golfed on the day Laci disappeared, Peterson attributed that to “some confusion caused by a few people who believed or assumed I had played golf that day.” However, he said, at least eight people testified that he told them he had gone fishing. “I never hid the fact that I went to the marina that day.”
  • Although prosecutors told jurors he had made five cement anchors at his office warehouse to drag Laci’s body to the bottom of the bay, and photos of messy cement and dusty rings there proved it, Peterson said that was left over from a previous project.
  • He chose the bay for the inaugural launch of his new boat an hour-and-a-half from his home instead of a nearby lake on Christmas Eve morning, he said, because he wanted to go “full throttle” and didn’t want to disturb anyone fishing on a local lake. Besides, he said, he knew the way to the Berkeley Marina because he and Laci “both loved to go to Chez Panisse, and would walk along the perimeter of the marina afterward.”
  • He left his new fishing lures on the seat of his truck not because he was preoccupied with disposing of his wife’s body, but because he was more excited about trying out his new boat.

Peterson left numerous pieces of evidence unexplained, including why he never mentioned his new boat purchase to his father-in-law, who was an avid fisherman, or why when he called his mother-in-law looking for Laci, he told her she was “missing” or why, during a secretly wire-tapped phone call when his mother encouraged him to fly to Washington to follow a tip that Laci was spotted there, he could be heard laughing when he hung up.

Nonetheless, he wrote, “I did not deny the police access to anything they wanted to search because I had nothing to do with Laci’s disappearance.”

“The worry over Laci and Connor and what they may be enduring left me unable to sleep at night and often for days at a time,” he wrote. “In retrospect, I wonder at and am embarrassed by many decisions I made at that time.”

He also didn’t go into detail about his affair with Amber Frey and why he told her he had “lost” his wife and would be spending his first Christmas without her before Laci had even disappeared, or why during a recorded phone call with her from Laci’s public vigil, he said he was in Paris partying at the Eiffel Tower.

“I do not have an acceptable explanation for my infidelity or the lies I told Amber Frey,” he wrote. “Despite the disgraceful and immature behavior I exhibited when I was unfaithful to my wife and despite the poor judgement I exercised when I compounded the error by not being forthcoming with police about it, I loved my wife very much.”

The entire story can be read at: 

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/24/convicted-killer-scott-peterson-says-i-loved-my-wife-very-much-in-extraordinary-declaration-seeking-new-trial/?campaign=sjmnbreakingnews&utm_email=0468C40CD4556506758913D181&active=no&lctg=0468C40CD4556506758913D181&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mercurynews.com%2f2025%2f04%2f24%2fconvicted-killer-scott-peterson-says-i-loved-my-wife-very-much-in-extraordinary-declaration-seeking-new-trial%2f&utm_campaign=bang-the_mercury_news-breaking_news_alerts-nl&utm_content=alert

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;


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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!


Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;

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Raymond Gilbert: U.K. Confirmation bias? He served 36 years for murder and has vowed to his last breath to clear his name, The Liverpool Echo (Crime Reporter Patrick Edrich) reports, noting that a team representing him claims that police investigating the fatal stabbing of a bookies' manager "misinterpreted" the crime scene and missed signs that it was "staged to look like a theft gone wrong."…"Mr Suffield, 23, was opening up for the day on Friday, March 13 1981 when he was ambushed and attacked in what has always been referred to as a horrifically botched robbery. But according to forensic expert Stephanie Davies, a former senior coroner's officer for Cheshire turned independent death investigator, Merseyside Police "made some early errors" which could make Mr Gilbert's conviction unsafe."…"Ms Davies, who holds a string of qualifications in death investigations, crime scenes and forensic science, previously wrote a highly sensitive report while working at Cheshire Constabulary alleging a serial killer could be behind a number of murder suicides. The report resulted in her taking the force to an employment tribunal after she was suspended for raising concerns. The investigator, who was introduced to Mr Gilbert by a mutual contact around a year ago, told the ECHO: "At first I didn't think it was something I could help with as the case against him had been built around his guilty pleas. However, after I looked at the forensic evidence I thought the narrative wasn't right. I looked a bit deeper and believed Ray was telling the truth."


PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Ms Davies' case review report, seen by the ECHO, makes a number of claims including: that the death scene had been misinterpreted by the police and the official accepted sequence of events was likely erroneous; there were signs of crime scene staging present at the scene that had been missed by the police at the time; due to this misinterpretation the police narrowed their suspect pool to just those with a history of theft; and the CCRC may have missed earlier opportunities to conduct a thorough forensic review. Following previous interviews with Mr Gilbert, the ECHO reported how victim Mr Suffield was involved in a heated argument with betting shop punters regarding a payment. Ms Davies claimed these events were relevant and could provide motive for the murder of the victim. However, she claimed officers investigating Mr Suffield's death reached the conclusion of a robbery gone wrong "extraordinarily quickly"."

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PASSAGE TWO OF THE DAY: "Ms Davies told the ECHO that she reached the conclusion of a staged scene after examining a number of pieces of evidence at the scene. One example, Ms Davies claimed, was her examinations of the washing line used to tie the victim's wrists. She claimed the blood markings on the loosely tied knot contradicted the theory that Mr Suffield was tied up prior to the attack, while a defensive wound on his left hand suggested it was free at the time he was assaulted with the knife. Ms Davies also claimed the position of the victim's shirt, which was open and had been pulled up, showed the victim had likely been moved or repositioned after death by a third party. She claimed this "likely happened when the offender(s) lifted the body to situate the cord behind it". She alleged a third example was the placement of money bags in close proximity to the victim, which in her opinion "could be a sign of exaggeration on the part of the offender". She claimed the term, coined by the FBI, is where an offender "tries too hard to misdirect the police".

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PASSAGE THREE OF THE DAY: "It is understood the CCRC is currently reviewing thousands of cases following the acquittal of Andrew Malkinson, a Manchester man whose conviction for rape was quashed in 2023 after DNA evidence proved he was not the attacker. The Court of Appeal heard there were major failures in the handling of Mr Malkinson's case and investigators failed to follow up evidence right up to 2022."

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PASSAGE FOUR OF THE DAY: "In her written conclusion, Ms Davies claimed Mr Suffield's death "was a planned murder by an individual or individuals known to him" by offenders "aware of the victim's usual routine". She said: "I believe the offender(s) knew that they would be considered prime suspects by the police, so they manipulated the scene to misdirect the police investigation." Ms Davies alleged: "I believe the investigation was potentially flawed from the outset and, influenced by confirmation bias, the police were just looking at a small pool of suspects with a history of theft and robbery and they were closed-minded to other potential suspects."

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STORY: "'I served 36 years for murder - I will fight to my last breath to clear my name,' by Crime Reporter Patrick Edrich, published by The Liverpool Echo, on April 19, 2025.


SUB-HEADING: "Raymond Gilbert served 36 years for a murder he maintains he did not commit - could an expert's new evidence finally clear his name?" (Paddy has been the Liverpool ECHO's crime reporter since March 2024. He has a particular interest in how crime impacts the various communities across Merseyside and what the police's response to tackling it is. He has experience covering high-profile cases across the north west's criminal courts and is always on the look out for stories about Merseyside Police and the region's prisons. He previously worked as a general news reporter at the ECHO, joining the paper after graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in 2021.)

GIST: "Police investigating the fatal stabbing of a bookies' manager "misinterpreted" the crime scene and missed signs that it was "staged to look like a theft gone wrong", a team representing one of the convicted murderers has claimed. Raymond 'Ray' Gilbert, then 22, was one of two men convicted of the murder of John Suffield, who managed the Joe Coral betting shop on Lodge Lane in Toxteth.


Mr Suffield, 23, was opening up for the day on Friday, March 13 1981 when he was ambushed and attacked in what has always been referred to as a horrifically botched robbery. But according to forensic expert Stephanie Davies, a former senior coroner's officer for Cheshire turned independent death investigator, Merseyside Police "made some early errors" which could make Mr Gilbert's conviction unsafe.

A team supporting Mr Gilbert's attempts to exonerate his name has submitted a new case review report to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which they claim suggests an alternative sequence of events to the accepted narrative put forward by investigators. A spokesperson for the CCRC, the statutory body responsible for investigating alleged miscarriages of justice which has the power to refer cases back to the Court of Appeal, told the ECHO: "We have received an application in relation to this case." Merseyside Police declined to comment when approached by the ECHO.

Mr Gilbert, a petty criminal from the local area, was arrested within three days of the suspected robbery-turned-murder and was interrogated by detectives for 48 hours without a solicitor present. During that time he changed his statement several times, before he confessed to the murder, which he now claims was false and given under duress.

He also implicated his co-accused, John Kamara, but withdrew his confession once he had access to legal representation. Despite the savagery of the killing, the busy location and the close-knit community of Toxteth during the 1980s, no physical or forensic evidence was ever uncovered linking the two men to the scene.

Despite the retraction of the statement, the two men went on trial. But in a dramatic twist, Mr Gilbert, who claimed he was under pressure from local criminals furious that he had dragged an innocent man into the picture, asked for a note to be passed to the judge indicating he wanted to put an end to the saga and pleaded guilty, in what he later said was an attempt to reverse his mistake in implicating Mr Kamara.

It backfired and the pair were sentenced to life in prison, but Mr Kamara was eventually acquitted 19 years later in 2000 when his legal team found a litany of issues including the lack of disclosure of witness statements. However, Mr Gilbert has never been granted the opportunity to have his case heard before the Court of Appeal and, despite his eventual release in 2016, continues to maintain his innocence and wants the opportunity to clear his name once and for all.

Speaking to the ECHO this week, Mr Gilbert said: "I'm innocent of murder, I will keep shouting that. I just want the opportunity to prove it. That will happen when the CCRC examines the case. I hope they act on the evidence and give me and the victim's family justice. When you know you have not done it you will fight. I will fight to my last breath."

Ms Davies, who holds a string of qualifications in death investigations, crime scenes and forensic science, previously wrote a highly sensitive report while working at Cheshire Constabulary alleging a serial killer could be behind a number of murder suicides. The report resulted in her taking the force to an employment tribunal after she was suspended for raising concerns.

The investigator, who was introduced to Mr Gilbert by a mutual contact around a year ago, told the ECHO: "At first I didn't think it was something I could help with as the case against him had been built around his guilty pleas. However, after I looked at the forensic evidence I thought the narrative wasn't right. I looked a bit deeper and believed Ray was telling the truth."

Ms Davies' case review report, seen by the ECHO, makes a number of claims including: that the death scene had been misinterpreted by the police and the official accepted sequence of events was likely erroneous; there were signs of crime scene staging present at the scene that had been missed by the police at the time; due to this misinterpretation the police narrowed their suspect pool to just those with a history of theft; and the CCRC may have missed earlier opportunities to conduct a thorough forensic review.

Following previous interviews with Mr Gilbert, the ECHO reported how victim Mr Suffield was involved in a heated argument with betting shop punters regarding a payment. Ms Davies claimed these events were relevant and could provide motive for the murder of the victim. However, she claimed officers investigating Mr Suffield's death reached the conclusion of a robbery gone wrong "extraordinarily quickly".

Ms Davies told the ECHO that she reached the conclusion of a staged scene after examining a number of pieces of evidence at the scene. One example, Ms Davies claimed, was her examinations of the washing line used to tie the victim's wrists. She claimed the blood markings on the loosely tied knot contradicted the theory that Mr Suffield was tied up prior to the attack, while a defensive wound on his left hand suggested it was free at the time he was assaulted with the knife.

Ms Davies also claimed the position of the victim's shirt, which was open and had been pulled up, showed the victim had likely been moved or repositioned after death by a third party. She claimed this "likely happened when the offender(s) lifted the body to situate the cord behind it".


She alleged a third example was the placement of money bags in close proximity to the victim, which in her opinion "could be a sign of exaggeration on the part of the offender". She claimed the term, coined by the FBI, is where an offender "tries too hard to misdirect the police"

In her written conclusion, Ms Davies claimed Mr Suffield's death "was a planned murder by an individual or individuals known to him" by offenders "aware of the victim's usual routine". She said: "I believe the offender(s) knew that they would be considered prime suspects by the police, so they manipulated the scene to misdirect the police investigation."

Ms Davies alleged: "I believe the investigation was potentially flawed from the outset and, influenced by confirmation bias, the police were just looking at a small pool of suspects with a history of theft and robbery and they were closed-minded to other potential suspects."

Mr Gilbert served 36 years in prison before his eventual release in 2016, but says he could have been set free as long ago as 1995 if he had confessed his guilt to the Parole Board. Six CCRC applications have previously been submitted on his behalf, but all have been unsuccessful.

He and his team have maintained these have all been refused because of the details of his confessions, which he told the ECHO were obtained through "coercion and duress". Ms Davies and Hayley Woods, a paralegal who submitted the CCRC review, have claimed Mr Gilbert's confessions showed a lucidity that matched the ever-changing information that interviewing officers were privy to. Ms Davies said: "Miscarriages of justice can and do occur when false confessions or false pleas are made by innocent suspects."


Mr Gilbert now lives in Leeds with his wife after spending five years back in Liverpool after his release from prison. He said he moved away from Merseyside as "some people felt uncomfortable around me and I felt uncomfortable around them". When asked to describe his continued fight to clear his name, he told the ECHO: "It's sad. I lost everything when I was in prison. I lost my dad, who was my best mate. I lost my oldest brother. I'm too old to have kids, I have missed that, and everything else I would have liked to have done. Clubs, music, football, I have missed it all."

His team have requested the next step taken by the CCRC is a forensic review to "confirm definitely the absence" of Mr Gilbert at the scene. Ms Davies wrote: "If no forensic materials remain or are not viable for such a review, then the test for reasonable doubt must be considered as well as the real possibility that Mr Gilbert's conviction could be overturned."

It is understood the CCRC is currently reviewing thousands of cases following the acquittal of Andrew Malkinson, a Manchester man whose conviction for rape was quashed in 2023 after DNA evidence proved he was not the attacker. The Court of Appeal heard there were major failures in the handling of Mr Malkinson's case and investigators failed to follow up evidence right up to 2022.

Mr Gilbert and his team told the ECHO they understand there are six exhibits of forensic evidence currently stored in boxes by the CCRC which could be the key to proving his innocence. Ms Woods told the ECHO: "Just like Andy Malkinson's CCRC applications, there seemed to be a focus upon conferring (Ray's) guilt rather than the possible research that may have established that this man could be innocent.

"The CCRC did not drill down enough across other evidence involving Ray either that may have indicated other possibilities. They have the powers to gain access to police files and delve deep into the individual's own records. It has since come to light that these documents could have played a significant contribution in determining the outcome of Ray’s applications also. The team working on this new application have found numerous evidential issues that could have easily backed up his previous applications if these records had been investigated."

Ms Davies claimed to the ECHO: "The CCRC has never been aware that the police made some early errors. That is brand new information. The ideal outcome from this is a referral back to the Court of Appeal, but we know it will take time." Mr Gilbert, who remains a convicted murderer while he waits to find out if his latest application is successful, added: "I was a petty crook who did things I'm not proud of, but I never murdered anyone. I will continue to fight until the day I die."

The entire story can be read at: 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/i-served-36-years-murder-31435639

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:


https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985


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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;


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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!


Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;

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