Discredited Forensic Scientist Henry Lee: NPR (Sound Bites - NPR/WSHU (Reporter Maria Lynders) - reports a development in a civil suit launched by two exonerated men (Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning) who claim that the renowned forensic criminologist fabricated evidence against them, sending them wrongly to prison for the collective 60 years they spent behind bars. The NPR 'Sound Bite': "Two men wrongfully convicted in the 1985 New Milford murder want $60 million for the three decades they spent in prison. On July 21, a judge found that Connecticut forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee fabricated evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men for the murder of Everett Carr. Attorneys for Lee have appealed the ruling. Lawyers representing the two men filed a motion on Tuesday for a prejudgment remedy of $60 million to make sure their clients are paid if the jury votes in their favor. The two men want the state to set aside $1 million for every year of the three decades they spent in prison for a crime they did not commit."

STORY: "Sound Bites" by Maria Lynders, published on August 4, 2023, by WSHY, on August 4, 2023. (Maria Lynders is a news fellow at WSHU, working to cover Indigenous communities in southern New England and Long Island, New York. She  grew up in Connecticut and is an undergraduate student at Stony Brook University, majoring in journalism with a minor in environmental studies. ..")

GIST: "Two men wrongfully convicted in the 1985 New Milford murder want $60 million for the three decades they spent in prison. On July 21, a judge found that Connecticut forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee fabricated evidence that led to the wrongful convictions of two men for the murder of Everett Carr. Attorneys for Lee have appealed the ruling. Lawyers representing the two men filed a motion on Tuesday for a prejudgment remedy of $60 million to make sure their clients are paid if the jury votes in their favor. The two men want the state to set aside $1 million for every year of the three decades they spent in prison for a crime they did not commit."

The entire post can be read at:

https://www.wshu.org/sound-bites/2023-08-04/sound-bites-new-york-health-officials-urge-hpv-vaccinations-at-age-9

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/120008354894645705/47049136857587929

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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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:

David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.”

https://deadline.com/2021/11/alice-sebold-lucky-rape-conviction-overturned-anthony-broadwater-1234880143/

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