Kathleen Folbigg: Australia: One of her dreams? She served more than 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four children, before she was released and acquitted in 2023 after an inquiry heard there was reasonable doubt about her guilt based on new scientific evidence - now she is wants genetic testing to be made more readily available to avoid other people experiencing a similar fate, Yahoo News reports. Reporter Andrew Brown…"(One of my dreams .... would be standard genetic testing before a situation like mine was to arise again, that genetic testing is done before you cock the hammer of a gun and fire," she told the summit on Tuesday"

PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Ms Folbigg said genetic testing had rapidly developed in the two decades since she was tried and convicted and that it could provide other benefits to future parents. She said law enforcement should also have greater access to the scientific tools. "I'd like to think that investigators in the first place, instead of just automatically going 'whoever the primary carer is, it's their fault', to expand their investigative tools that are available and make genetic testing one of their tools would be better," Ms Folbigg said."

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STORY: "Folbigg urges genetic testing expansion after acquittal," by Reporter Andrew Brown, AAP News Service, published by Yahoo News  on February 24, 2025.

GIST:" Wrongly convicted mother Kathleen Folbigg says genetic testing should be made more readily available to avoid other people experiencing a similar fate.

Ms Folbigg served more than 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four children, before she was released and acquitted in 2023 after an inquiry heard there was reasonable doubt about her guilt based on new scientific evidence.

The children, Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura, died between 1989 and 1999 at ages ranging from 19 days to 18 months.

Experts said during the inquiry a rare genetic variation was a "reasonably possible cause" of the deaths of Sarah and Laura.

Speaking at the Universities Australia Solutions Summit in Canberra, Ms Folbigg said greate"Genetic science did play quite a large role in having me released, and one of my dreams .... would be standard genetic testing before a situation like mine was to arise again, that genetic testing is done before you cock the hammer of a gun and fire," she told the summit on Tuesday.

"It was certainly a rocky road to try to get people to listen."

Ms Folbigg said genetic testing had rapidly developed in the two decades since she was tried and convicted and that it could provide other benefits to future parents.

She said law enforcement should also have greater access to the scientific tools.

"I'd like to think that investigators in the first place, instead of just automatically going 'whoever the primary carer is, it's their fault', to expand their investigative tools that are available and make genetic testing one of their tools would be better," Ms Folbigg said.

While Ms Folbigg is seeking compensation for her wrongful conviction, her lawyer Rhanee Rego said there were still delays in receiving any form of payment.

"We're relying on the goodwill of NSW politicians at the moment, and I can tell you, there's been virtually no goodwill up until this point," she told the summit.

"They still haven't given us, they won't give us a timeframe."

Ms Folbigg said compensation from the state government would allow her to have closure from the wrongful imprisonment.

"Everything will have been answered. Everything will have been done, as much as can be done," she said."

The entire story can be read at:

Folbigg urges genetic testing expansion after acquittal

Andrew Brown

24 February 2025·2-min read

Wrongly convicted mother Kathleen Folbigg says genetic testing should be made more readily available to avoid other people experiencing a similar fate.

Ms Folbigg served more than 20 years in prison after being convicted of killing her four children, before she was released and acquitted in 2023 after an inquiry heard there was reasonable doubt about her guilt based on new scientific evidence.

The children, Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura, died between 1989 and 1999 at ages ranging from 19 days to 18 months.

Experts said during the inquiry a rare genetic variation was a "reasonably possible cause" of the deaths of Sarah and Laura.

Speaking at the Universities Australia Solutions Summit in Canberra, Ms Folbigg said greater access to genetic testing was needed.

"Genetic science did play quite a large role in having me released, and one of my dreams .... would be standard genetic testing before a situation like mine was to arise again, that genetic testing is done before you cock the hammer of a gun and fire," she told the summit on Tuesday.

"It was certainly a rocky road to try to get people to listen."

Ms Folbigg said genetic testing had rapidly developed in the two decades since she was tried and convicted and that it could provide other benefits to future parents.

She said law enforcement should also have greater access to the scientific tools.

"I'd like to think that investigators in the first place, instead of just automatically going 'whoever the primary carer is, it's their fault', to expand their investigative tools that are available and make genetic testing one of their tools would be better," Ms Folbigg said.

While Ms Folbigg is seeking compensation for her wrongful conviction, her lawyer Rhanee Rego said there were still delays in receiving any form of payment.

"We're relying on the goodwill of NSW politicians at the moment, and I can tell you, there's been virtually no goodwill up until this point," she told the summit.

"They still haven't given us, they won't give us a timeframe."

Ms Folbigg said compensation from the state government would allow her to have closure from the wrongful imprisonment.

"Everything will have been answered. Everything will have been done, as much as can be done," she said."

The entire story can be read at:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/folbigg-urges-genetic-testing-expansion-044403003.html

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am grateful to 'Authory' a valuable service which  creates a portfolio of all of my posts since I fired  my  first post into the cybersphere  on the   Charles Smith Blog    on September 29, 2007, some 17 years ago. Today's post is number 11, 784  Yikes! Yes, this is a compulsion, but it's a healthy one ! One of the best features of 'Authory'  (which I am trying out on the Blog for the first time, is a search engine for the portfolio  which  makes it easier  for  readers to follow the many important cases, issues and developments (and occasional rants)  in the area of flawed  pathology, flawed pathologists, and whatever else might cross my mind  in jurisdictions throughout the world which are at the heart of the Blog. So, dear reader, you can access the portfolio at the following link. Just type the inquiry into the  search box  at the following link,  and hit enter.  (The search box is on the top write side of the page under 'Read more.' Why not try it out, and,  as encouraging  use of this search function  by my readers is rather new to me, any feedback on how it is working would be appreciated at: hlevy15@gmail.com. Cheers!

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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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And Justice For All: (The trial from hell!): This bizarre, twisted, New Mexico case had me thinking about Al Pacino's movie 'And Justice For All' - about a dark, unpredictable criminal justice system inhabited by imperfect human beings, in which everything - and much more - goes wrong. Taos News (Reporter Olivia Lewis) tells the good news that the State Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of a woman who the prosecutor had called called a 'witch' - but the bad news is that this happened in the first place. Business as usual?…"In 2022, Desiree Lensegrav was sentenced to 45 years in prison with the possibility of parole for helping to kidnap and murder Ranchos de Taos resident Joseph Morgas in 2019. However, New Mexico’s highest court concluded Lensegrav didn’t receive a fair trial and prohibited a retrial, citing state constitutional protections of double jeopardy. “In this case of severe and pervasive prosecutorial misconduct, exacerbated by a lackluster defense, we hold that an Assistant District Attorney who uses opening statements to expose the jury to incriminating allegations from a non-testifying codefendant, repeatedly accuses a defendant of witchcraft, and relies on inflammatory and inadmissible evidence throughout the case, has knowingly committed misconduct so unfairly prejudicial and with such willful disregard for reversal on appeal that retrial is barred under ... the New Mexico Constitution,” the court wrote in an opinion by Justice Michael E. Vigil."

BACKGROUND:  "Norman Jewison said that he was attracted to the script because it clarified for him the reality that the courtroom is a kind of stage where a drama is played out. He was intrigued by the satirical possibilities of the scenario. He also drew parallels to contemporary politics. "There was a time when the legal profession was inviolate," he said. "Then came Watergate...We're starting to realize that being in the law doesn't mean being above the law. He was careful to delineate the film's genre. "It's difficult at times to pull the audience back. Sometimes they start to go with the film as a melodrama. We were then able to pull them back with something almost absurd, to shock them out of it because I didn't want it to become a message picture."

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QUOTE FROM THE MOVIE: (Wikipedia): "Kirkland's opening statement during the film's climax contains its most famous moment, including the outburst, "You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!."…….."The "You're out of order!" scene has been parodied many times in popular media, such as in The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory. It is also echoed in Pacino's speech in the film Scent of a Woman."

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:  (From the New Mexico trial that is the subject of this post): “Bolstered with copious amounts of other inflammatory and inadmissible evidence, including allegations that Defendant was a ‘witch’ and a ‘bruja’ ... who controlled Mr. Montoya through her menstrual blood, ADA Ripol embarked on a three-day-long exercise in pathos and character assassination that utterly deprived Defendant of a fair trial that is guaranteed by the New Mexico Constitution,” the court wrote.

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "The court found it “profoundly troubling” that Lensegrav’s defense counsel didn’t object to the majority of instances involving prosecutorial misconduct during the trial. The court also noted the prosecution introduced “foul-smelling physical evidence” from the victim’s remains and the smell led the judge to adjourn the trial early during the second day. Ripol urged the jury in his closing statement to find Lensegrav guilty for the “stench of death that permeated this courtroom,” the opinion says."

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STORY: "New Mexico Supreme Court overturns murder conviction of woman prosecutor called a 'witch,' by Reporter Olivia Lewis, published by The Taos News,  a sister publication of the Sannta Fe New Mexican,   on February 20, 2025.

STORY: "The state Supreme Court overturned a Taos woman’s murder conviction on Thursday citing “outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” including a prosecutor for the 8th Judicial District Attorney’s Office referring to the defendant as a witch.

In 2022, Desiree Lensegrav was sentenced to 45 years in prison with the possibility of parole for helping to kidnap and murder Ranchos de Taos resident Joseph Morgas in 2019. However, New Mexico’s highest court concluded Lensegrav didn’t receive a fair trial and prohibited a retrial, citing state constitutional protections of double jeopardy.

“In this case of severe and pervasive prosecutorial misconduct, exacerbated by a lackluster defense, we hold that an Assistant District Attorney who uses opening statements to expose the jury to incriminating allegations from a non-testifying codefendant, repeatedly accuses a defendant of witchcraft, and relies on inflammatory and inadmissible evidence throughout the case, has knowingly committed misconduct so unfairly prejudicial and with such willful disregard for reversal on appeal that retrial is barred under ... the New Mexico Constitution,” the court wrote in an opinion by Justice Michael E. Vigil.

Lensegrav was convicted and sentenced for first-degree murder, kidnapping, evidence tampering and conspiracy to commit murder. Lensegrav’s husband, Aram Montoya, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and kidnapping in 2021. He received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

According to court records, Lensegrav and her husband confessed to killing Morgas following a 2020 domestic violence incident in which Montoya stabbed Lensegrav.

“[Lensegrav] was taken to a hospital and later described to police how Montoya killed Morgas during a fight,” according to Thursday’s news release from the state Administrative Office of the Courts. “The victim’s body was taken to another location where it was burned, decapitated and buried. The head was thrown into the Rio Grande. Lensegrav told police that she wanted Montoya to hurt Morgas after he insulted her at a drug house and threatened actions so she would lose custody of her child.”

The prosecution canceled plans to call Montoya as a witness shortly before Lensegrav’s trial in 2022, but the court wrote Assistant District Attorney Cosme Ripol “nevertheless used his opening statement to expose the jury to Mr. Montoya’s incriminating allegations against Defendant.”

“Bolstered with copious amounts of other inflammatory and inadmissible evidence, including allegations that Defendant was a ‘witch’ and a ‘bruja’ ... who controlled Mr. Montoya through her menstrual blood, ADA Ripol embarked on a three-day-long exercise in pathos and character assassination that utterly deprived Defendant of a fair trial that is guaranteed by the New Mexico Constitution,” the court wrote.

The court found it “profoundly troubling” that Lensegrav’s defense counsel didn’t object to the majority of instances involving prosecutorial misconduct during the trial. The court also noted the prosecution introduced “foul-smelling physical evidence” from the victim’s remains and the smell led the judge to adjourn the trial early during the second day. Ripol urged the jury in his closing statement to find Lensegrav guilty for the “stench of death that permeated this courtroom,” the opinion says.

“The entire trial was filled with theatrics, hyperbole and disparaging inflammatory statements, such that the extent of the misconduct cannot be fully conveyed in this opinion,” the Court wrote.

The entire story can be read at: 

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexico-supreme-court-overturns-murder-conviction-of-woman-prosecutor-called-a-witch/article_eca196cc-f004-11ef-820d-c368a15ac965.html

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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Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie: New Brunswick: The Saint John Police Chief says the two men who spent 40 years in prison for a murder they did not commit are victims of police 'tunnel vision; CBC News (Reporter Mia Urquhart) reports, noting that: "Applying today's policing standards, however, is a different story. He said there would "absolutely" be consequences for a police officer who conducted an investigation like the one into Leeman's death. One of the standards that has changed since the early '90s governs disclosure of evidence to the defence. In the Leeman case, an eyewitness was paid by police, and that information was never given to the defence teams. Court documents noted that Saint John police had given a total of $1,800 — in addition to hotel and relocation costs — to a 16-year-old who testified in 1984 that he had witnessed Leeman's murder. The witness, John Loeman Jr., later recanted his story to his own lawyer, to a journalist, in two letters and to a federal Justice Department lawyer looking into Mailman and Gillespie's case in 1998."

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  Police bribery of 'informants' is not a thing of the past which magically disappeared forty or fifty years ago, which the police Chief seems to want  us to believe. (If only it had)  as Chief   Robert Bruce suggests.This Blog is peppered with  much more recent  cases all over the Globe,  in which police incentivized witnesses in order to get convictions -  often at the expense of an innocent person.  In a previous post of this Blog, I asked,  "What do police informants have to do with forensic science? Investigative  Reporter Pamela Colloff give us  a clue when she writes - at the link below -  "I’ve wanted to write about jailhouse informants for a long time because they often appear in troubled cases in which the other evidence is weak." That's my experience as  well as a criminal lawyer and an observer of criminal justice. Given the reality that jurors - thanks to the CSI effect - are becoming more and more insistent on the need for there to be forensic evidence, it is becoming more and more common for police to rely on shady tactics such as use of police snitches, staging lineups, coercing, inducing, or creating false confessions out of thin air, procuring false eyewitness testimony (uncertified  jailhouse testinomy'   or concealing exculpatory evidence. I am very disappointed by the fact that the police  have only released a summary of the report. Releasing that  mere summary, raises a suspicion  in my mind, that that there is material in that document that  the police do not want us to see - a suspicion that they still have something to hide relating to the  investigation that caused Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie - two innocent men - decades of their lives. For shame!

Harold Levy:  Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

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STORY: "Mailman and Gillespie victims of police 'tunnel vision,' Saint John chief says," by Reporter Mia Urquhart, published by CBC News, New Brunswick, on March 7, 2025.

SUB-HEADING: "Saint John Police Force releases summary of report following year-long review."

PHOTO CAPTION: "Robert Mailman, left, and Walter Gillespie, who died last April, spent 40 years in prison for a murder they didn't commit."

GIST: "Saint John police had "tunnel vision" during their investigation of the 1983 murder of George Leeman, according to a year-long review of the case. 

Once investigators focused on Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie, they "looked for evidence that would support their case," Chief Robert Bruce said at a news conference on Friday. 

Mailman and Gillespie were convicted of second-degree murder in 1984 and given life sentences. Both were eventually paroled. Gillespie died last April and Mailman, who will turn 77 next Friday, has terminal cancer and was taken to hospital on Thursday.

Ron Dalton, co-president of Innocence Canada, spoke with Mailman on Friday morning before the news conference. 

He said Mailman told him if the Saint John Police Force "would stand up, take responsibility and admit that they made mistakes, and release the full unredacted report, he would be satisfied." 

Dalton noted that "it wasn't a fulsome apology. It was some acknowledgement at least. And I'm hoping that'll be enough to give Mr. Mailman some peace of mind."Robert Mailman and Walter Gillespie, who were convicted of the 1983 murder of George Leeman, always maintained their innocence. Independent report concludes the main shortfall in investigation was ‘tunnel vision’ by police.

He said Mailman is very ill. Doctors told him they wanted him to spend a couple days in hospital. 

"He said no, if he's dying, he's going to go home and die in his own comfort, on his own terms."

Dalton said he doesn't believe there's any reason not to release Farrah's entire report. 

"Until we shine some daylight in some of these dark corners, you don't acknowledge the mistakes and you don't have a chance of fixing them."

From his own perspective, Dalton said he was surprised by the summary of the report. 

"I hate to admit it, but I was pleasantly surprised. My expectation bar was set pretty low. I was expecting more of a whitewash than what I see there now."

\In January 2024, after a court ruled the two men had been victims of a miscarriage of justice, Bruce announced a review of the original police investigation.

On Friday, as he released a summary of that review, Bruce said officers made mistakes and for that he expressed "profound regret" to those involved "that these events unfolded as they did."

Investigator Allen Farrah, a retired RCMP officer, said in the summary, "The failure of this investigation is largely attributed to police tunnel vision." 

Detectives "relied heavily on a witness whose cooperation and statements were inconsistent and lacked corroboration," Farrah said. 

"Today, such outcomes are less likely due to significant changes in Law, rigorous policies governing law enforcement practices, increased checks and balances, and the arm's-length relationship between police and the Crown." 

Bruce said many of the shortcomings of the original police investigation can be blamed on "historical factors no longer present in modern-day policing practices," and there was no "malicious intent to railroad people" on the part of the officers. 

"They followed a line that they were following. Was it the best? No. Did they make mistakes? Yes. But there was no ill intent. So there would be no criminality to that," Bruce said.

Applying today's policing standards, however, is a different story. He said there would "absolutely" be consequences for a police officer who conducted an investigation like the one into Leeman's death.  One of the standards that has changed since the early '90s governs disclosure of evidence to the defence. 

In the Leeman case, an eyewitness was paid by police, and that information was never given to the defence teams. 

Court documents noted that Saint John police had given a total of $1,800 — in addition to hotel and relocation costs — to a 16-year-old who testified in 1984 that he had witnessed Leeman's murder.

The witness, John Loeman Jr., later recanted his story to his own lawyer, to a journalist, in two letters and to a federal Justice Department lawyer looking into Mailman and Gillespie's case in 1998.

Case closed 

As far as the original murder investigation goes, Bruce said that case is closed. They're not still looking for a killer. 

He said one person pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1984. 

"We're not opening that case up," said Bruce. "We feel it's complete.

Janet Shatford pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter in exchange for her testimony against Mailman and Gillespie.

Bruce said the eyewitness "provided information that brought those three people to our attention. Miss Shatford, Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Mailman. Before that, they weren't even considered suspects.”

Bruce said the whole case was based on "an independent witness whose story was inconsistent and we couldn't get the collaborating evidence."

With modern-day policing standards, Bruce said that would never happen.

"It's very rare that one single eyewitness would carry the weight that it did back in those days."

The entire story can be read at:

mailman-gillespie-police-review-1.7477800

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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