STORY: "4 people wrongly convicted share stories of survival,"reported by Harry Hitzeman, published by the "Daily Herald" on December 5 2105.
PHOTO CAPTION: "Juan Rivera laughs while talking with Kristine
Bunch, left, and Kane County Assistant Public Defender Kim Bilbrey
during a break at a workshop Friday in Geneva to examine four wrongful
convictions. Rivera and Bunch both were wrongfully convicted of crimes."
SUB-HEADING: "Better police
training, less immunity granted to witnesses, more prosecutor
accountability and a larger pool of resources for the public defenders
can help toward avoiding and preventing convictions of innocent people."
GIST: "Before her release, Kristine Bunch served more than 17 years of a 60-year sentence for arson and the murder of her 3-year-old son in June 1995 after her trailer burned down in Decatur County, Indiana. Bunch said she wants more resources provided to public defenders to handle complex, scientific cases. "The biggest heartache was my public defender didn't have the funds, didn't have the support he needed to take a case like mine," Bunch said. "If they had the help they needed, they could stop people before they're wrongly convicted. The hardest part is feeling that no one hears you when you say you're innocent." The seminar was presented by the Kane County public defender's office and sponsored by the law firms of: Foote, Mielke, Chavez and O'Neil; Konicek & Dillon; and Meyers & Flowers."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20151204/news/151209331/
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