Good News! Lava for Goods' Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeing' is returning for a fourth season with probes into many cases of interest to this Blog, including Marvin Haynes, Tonia Miller. Marty Levingston, Eddy Ramirez and Tom Rhodes…"Co-founded and led by renowned music executive, children's book author, and philanthropist Jason Flom with Lava Media COO Jeff Kempler, Lava for Good’s #1-charting lineup of podcasts, produced and promoted in association with Signal Co. No1, has been downloaded over 65 million times and is credited with influencing exonerations, clemencies, pardons, legislation and reforms nationwide. The lineup currently includes Bone Valley, Earwitness, Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco, Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng, The War on Drugs, False Confessions, Junk Science, and more, and is available on all popular podcast platforms."

To tune in: 

Listeners can tune into Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng at www.lavaforgood.com and on all major podcast platforms, with the special video interviews available on YouTube. For early access to episodes and an ad-free experience, subscribe to Lava for Good+ on Apple Podcasts.

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GIST: "Freleng’s fourth season will feature episodes recorded live at the 2024 Innocence Network Conference in New Orleans. These special stories will also be available as weekly video episodes of Wrongful Conviction on YouTube.

Episodes from the conference will include the cases of Marvin Haynes, who was wrongfully identified and sentenced to life in prison due to mistaken eyewitness identifications and unethical police tactics; Tonia Miller, whose case reveals how flawed medical assumptions led to her wrongful conviction for second-degree murder after the death of her infant daughter; Marty Levingston, who was sentenced to 15 years to life based on dubious eyewitness testimony and jailhouse informants; Eddie Ramirez, a victim of unreliable witness testimonies who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit; and Tom Rhodes, who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife on the basis of false testimony from a medical examiner."

The entire release can be read at:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9227540/lava-for-goods-wrongful-conviction-with-maggie-freleng-returns-for-a-fourth-season

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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