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• Innocence and Justice Clinic director shares thoughts on ‘Making a Murderer’ documentary
  January 12th, 2016

  Professor Mark Rabil, the director of Wake Forest Law’s Innocence Clinic, said he started teaching the Steven Avery murder case years before the “Making a Murderer” documentary came out. He shares his thoughts on what the popular series shows with WXII’s Briana Conner. Watch the video here.

• “They’re Not Only Naive… [They Are] Being Economically and Budgetarily Unwise”
  April 23rd, 2013

  Professor Rabil has some strong words for legislators considering to repeal North Carolina’s landmark Racial Justice Act.  Speaking to Star News, Professor Rabil had this to say: “Can the legislature legally retroactively repeal a law that people have already filed claims under? Generally speaking, I think the answer is going to be no, but that …

• This Could Happen to You
  April 9th, 2013

    On April 3, 2013, Brian Banks signed with the Atlanta Falcons and is now a part of their 90 man roster.  Right now you may be asking yourself, why do I care, and how could I make this happen to me? But there’s a lot more to this story.  in 2002, Brian Banks was …

• “It looks like Damien Echols finally killed someone.”
  March 22nd, 2013

    These three young boys were found brutally murdered.  When police speculated about the assailant, the juvenile probation officer assisting at the scene said a local teenager, Damien Echols, was “capable” of committing the murders, stating “it looks like Damien Echols finally killed someone.” That was pretty much all it took.  The small town West …

• More Casualties From Suicide than Combat is a Wake-up Call for America
  March 5th, 2013

  Part of human nature is the propensity to ignore long-term consequences in order to deal with short-term problems. Americans are no exception to this instinct, in fact, we are outliers.  Modern America has cultivated and refined the primal drive for instant gratification, weaving it directly into the DNA of our culture.  As a result, our …

• His Family Died in a Fire, and He Served 27 Years for Their Murder
  March 1st, 2013

  A lot of people may feel like David Gavitt should have died with his family, but that doesn’t mean he killed them.   Source: http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201302259629/Headline-News/Prof-touts-happy-ending-to-the-saddest-case-I-know

• A Thousand Days Without Trial
  March 1st, 2013

    Bradley Manning waited over 1,000 days in jail before his recent plea in which he admitted being the source behind hundreds of thousands of documents released to Wikileaks, but contested that his actions “aided the enemy”.  The Verge.com has an in-depth series on the Manning case, and most-distressingly it exposes the federal government’s increasing use of …

• Darryl Hunt Writes Column on Racial Justice Act
  February 9th, 2013

  Here is a recent column by Darryl Hunt on the Racial Justice Act, which legislators are threatening to repeal:  http://www.journalnow.com/opinion/columnists/article_7a61ba26-6ffe-11e2-b7dc-0019bb30f31a.html

• Innocence Network and Innocence Project Urge Georgia Board to Reconsider Decision and DA to lift execution warrant
  September 21st, 2011

  (ATLANTA, GA;  September 20, 2011) Today the Innocence Network and the Innocence Project submitted a letter to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles urging the board to reconsider its decision denying clemency to Troy Davis who is scheduled to be executed tomorrow.  The letter urges the Board to stay Davis’ execution so that it …

• Prosecutors want Innocence Commission to exclude prisoners who pleaded guilty
  June 13th, 2011

  Prosecutors across the state have mounted an effort to block defendants who plead guilty from appealing to the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission, a state agency that examines claims that a prisoner may have been wrongly convicted. “Continue reading”