POST: "Magazine editor says "Innocence Fraud" - when innocence organizations free guilty people - is a threat," by Mark Godsey, published by the Wrongful Convictions Blog on May 7, 2015.
CAPTION: 'Innocence fraud is real ' warns Crime Lab Report's chief Managing Editor."
GIST: "I’m posting this because it’s important to always understand fully the fear that threats to the status quo create........."A stern warning was issued to crime laboratory administrators that
some post-conviction exonerations may have been secured by innocence
activists using malicious tactics, or ‘innocence fraud’, creating
potential public safety threats as convicted felons are released from
prison. The comments were made by John M. Collins Jr., the Chief Managing
Editor of Crime Lab Report, in a speech detailing the preliminary
findings of a study titled ‘The Innocence Audit’ at the annual symposium
of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) on
Thursday, April 30, 2015. The event was held at the Wardman Park
Marriott in Washington, D.C.
“Exonerations are extremely serious,” Collins told the audience of
approximately 150 guests on the final day of the symposium. “For our
criminal justice system to go back and say that the decision of a judge
or jury who decided to put a particular individual in prison [was wrong]
. . . and suddenly say that the individual shouldn’t be there – and is
therefore free to return to life in the public – is very, very serious.”"
The entire post can be found at:
http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2015/05/07/lab-director-says-innocence-fraud-when-innocence-organizations-free-guilty-people-is-a-threat/
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