r/InnocenceProject • • May 20 '18

This man seems innocent, am I crazy?

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This man was held for years based on DNA evidence from a technique that is now known to be highly prone to error, and vulnerable to contamination. He eventually nnn in a plea to escape the death penalty. Watching this video, he seems bullied, and innocent. Other interviews are the same. Could this be true?

https://youtu.be/Azsrr-1Cmwo


r/InnocenceProject • • Dec 04 '14

Count me in counselor.

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I got a story to tell about an Assistant US Attorney, his paranoia and the US Marshals, it's still playing out. But when it concludes, I'll share it in its full stunning glory.

I have a really paranoid neighbor who is an Assistant US Attorney, He is strange. To say the least. I spent about 5 years way back in the late 90's doing federal time for some stupid shit.

Not a big deal, I always have made money legit. I own a slug of homes, a lot of property and and have done well for myself. I got the biggest home in the county. I developed this subdivision. Shit it's just swamp land that was converted.

So this paranoid shit lives as you come into the road. A small home about the size of my barn. I knew who he was. I always knew. I spoke to him last weekend while walking my dogs. He flipped out when i called him by name.

He screams and yells asking if I am a threat against him or his family. My feeling was, really dude get a grip the whole fucking community know who you are what what you are,

His kids have big mouths btw.

So the long and short of it the US Marshals show up. 5 thugs in a couple of SUV's. My home sits at the end of the road on 12 acres. I saw them coming. I met that at the front door behind security wrought iron. They were pissed that I got the jump on them.

So the girls were all uptight that I knew who this oddball was. They of course tried to intimidate me. It failed. How did I learn who he was? His own father told me about 3-4 yrs back. Told me his name, what his kid did and that they met in Harvard, He is married to a rag head from Pakistan. Yup, a white dude with a bag wearer. Really funny to see them. I hear she is an ugly wench anyway.

I posted this whole shit in Ex-Cons, then I deleted it. The trolls were too much. But the mod in this forum called me. He made some calls on Monday to the federal office. Eventually the paranoid attorney is undoubtedly going to have to move. (I offered to buy his house at a greatly discounted price btw).

I flipped him off today when I cruised by. He was out front with his wife. She's a weirdo like him. I guess they met at Harvard. Traveled a lot but are jumpy. His kids are making noise at the schools. I am hearing that they are mouthy and hard to handle. We all hope they move on.

He's a creep alright but harmless to me. Yeah he could make things tough but considering how strange he is, he deserves to work for the feds.

BTW, he is a nothing. Works for the Post Office in some legal capacity. Is not a trial attorney just a paper pusher.

Thanks spearchucker for the calls today, and again, thanks for confirming what I already knew. BTW my horses like to shit when they walk? Well, they did it right on que today. Right in front of his driveway leading up to his house. Two big splatters.

Gotta love em. Rag heads aside I guess love is blind or you gotta love a hairy cootch.


r/InnocenceProject • • Dec 04 '14

NorCal Innocence Project

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r/InnocenceProject • • Apr 17 '23

Another day, another murder of innocent civilians by cops

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r/InnocenceProject • • Jan 27 '19

Huwe Burton, of the Bronx, was exonerated of the 1991 murder conviction of his mother. He was just 16 when he was coerced by detectives into falsely confessing to her murder.

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r/InnocenceProject • • Mar 06 '16

American wrongly convicted in Singapore

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r/InnocenceProject • • Jun 27 '21

Need Help/Advice.

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Hi,

I really need help and advice for an extreme case of stalking/slandering/harassment/framing going on in San Diego. Things are getting to the extreme where now a female roommate is actively involved with the party who has been actively trying to set me up.

I was residing with my father during COVID in the El Cajon area when we had a female neighbor move in next door. Things immediately started happening as soon as she moved in next door to us. My car started becoming vandalized. She/her friends began breaking into residences (my ex’s parents house at the time) and breaking into my personal property. They began following me around in their vehicles and slandering me online.

I have had to move 5x due to this women. She is absolute nutcase. I am now residing in the Kearny Mesa area and I have a female roommate who is actively involved with them. She has broken into my room on numerous occasions. I have had to contact the police, install security cameras, dead bolts on my door, as well as a door alarm. It is constant and I really could use some help or direction.

Around the house it appears they have tried to gather fingerprints from the walls/my bedroom door area. Recently, I have filed FBI reports because they have my Spectrum home internet compromised and are preventing me to restore my phone back to a valid firmware. All of these acts are highly illegal and I have been directed to the FBI, hence me filing the reports recently.

What can I do to protect myself from my roommate? What can I do to protect myself from this old female neighbor from El Cajon that started all of this? They were trying to use someone who resembled me and staged a scenario that there was a package theft around the Kearny Mesa/Birdland area of San Diego. I was able to catch it before they executed their false crime but I do not want to wait for another attempt to be made. The female roommate of mine is actively trying to help set scenarios into motion that they can try to use against me and really could use some help in this department.

Thank you so much and I look forward to a response.


r/InnocenceProject • • Mar 03 '21

What if you could help an Innocent Man BEFORE he was dragged to court?

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My public post to the California Innocence Project-

Who is going to help Steven Wayne Todd while Janey Peterson continues to slander his name publicly, accusing him of murder in order to free Scott Peterson!? Yes. The Janey that YOU featured as someone who’s helping the innocence project!!! She’s only ‘helping’ to gain support for her convicted brother in law! Why can’t you see this!? What she is doing not only detracts from the good you are doing but she’s smearing the name of an INNOCENT man while you stand idly by and do nothing!!! Steven Todd still lives in Modesto, CA. He has no money and no one to help him during Janey Peterson’s million dollar smear campaign!!! He broke into a house in 2002, went to jail and paid for his crime. He even took a polygraph test when asked and PASSED, unlike Scott Peterson!! 19 years later his name is being dragged through the mud and THE CALIFORNIA INNOCENCE PROJECT IS SUPPORTING THE WOMAN WHO IS DOING IT!!!!!! It is happening NOW!! HELP Steven Todd before it’s too late! Don’t let Janey Peterson throw an innocent man in prison for the rest of his life!!!! The Peterson Family has millions! Todd has nothing. If you are reading this and you care, please look into this. I am not donating another dime to the innocence project until they cut ties and tell her to STOP trying to frame an innocent man in order to free her brother-in-law!


r/InnocenceProject • • Dec 04 '14

Welcome. For a long time I personally have struggled with starting this sort of Sub,

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Cut to the chase. I hate injustice. I've seen a beak full in my years as a hack, a lawyer and working with the feds on overpopulation.

I firmly believe that whether the offender is, or isn't guilty is not the full picture. The cops lie. They fabricate and manipulate. Prosecutors do the same.

Folks many years later find exculpatory evidence that the juries should of seen and heard. Given that we will work hard to point the offender in the right direction with Pro Bono attorney's, or law school innocent projects to give the offender a chance back at the bar,


r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 14 '22

The DEA repeatedly helps drug cartels deal drugs to Americans & their budget keeps going up.

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r/InnocenceProject • • Apr 25 '22

Stop the April 27 execution of Melissa Lucio

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r/InnocenceProject • • Mar 12 '23

Worst case of False Confession we have ever seen or heard of: DEA & DoJ versus Dr Terrence Sasaki, MD

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https://youarewithinthenorms.com/2023/03/11/scandal-at-nyu-medical-false-confession-and-the-hidden-persecution-and-10-years-imprisonment-of-dr-terence-sasaki-md-by-the-us-department-of-justice-and-dea-part-2/

Dr Terry Sasaki, MD is a wrongfully convicted doctor who was just another scapegoat for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)(Tyler Parkison) & Dept of Justice (DoJ)(AUSA Steven Dettelbach, Ed Feran & Rebecca Lutzko).

This is by far the worst case we have ever seen or heard of regarding False Confession which shows just how far the DoJ will go to convict innocent, successful minorities & keep them convicted with the judiciaries help (recall that almost all federal judges are former prosecutors/Assistant US Attorneys).

Update: It appears that more organizations & people are backing him based on his website.


r/InnocenceProject • • Jun 06 '23

Alliterated names?

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Why do so many of the innocence cases have alliterated names? Rodney Reid, Pervis pain, Brandon Bernard, Julius Jones, Kevin Keith, Kevin Cooper, Crystal Khozer,Ledell Lee. Is this a decision made by the advocates when choosing who to represent?


r/InnocenceProject • • Dec 13 '23

Law Enforcement are often just bullies & not interested in helping or protecting people.

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See this video for more evidence that Law Enforcement cannot be trusted, think they are above the law, & that they should all wear body cams to ensure that they behave legally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APsDkrxUuBw


r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 27 '22

Deliberately Convicting the Innocent: Exonerations Expose the Criminal Justice System’s Callous Indifference Toward Official Misconduct

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https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2021/jun/15/deliberately-convicting-innocent-exonerations-expose-criminal-justice-systems-callous-indifference-toward-official-misconduct/

There was official misconduct in more than half of all exoneration cases. "Almost all of the official misconduct identified fell into five general categories: (1) witness tampering, (2) misconduct in interrogations, (3) fabricating evidence, (4) concealing exculpatory evidence, and (5) misconduct at trial."

"In 1,076 (83%) of the 1,296 cases where official misconduct caused an innocent person to be unlawfully deprived of liberty, no one was disciplined. No one."

"In these cases, innocent people were sentenced to prison—many to life-long terms, and 93 of them were sentenced to death. On average, these innocents spent 11 years in prison (13.9 years for those wrongly convicted of murder)."


r/InnocenceProject • • May 29 '24

Roy S. Johnson: As growing chorus declares Toforest Johnson’s innocence, only one voice matters now

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r/InnocenceProject • • May 12 '24

Volunteer Opportunities???

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I'm eager to learn about volunteer opportunities available through the Innocence Project. Where can I find some resources?


r/InnocenceProject • • Mar 30 '24

Truth is not a matter of opinion

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4771192

Half an hour's study of the physics of puddles and bumps, and the biology of subdural hematoma, is all the science you need to know to be able to see that Computed Tomography images of Hannah Wesche's head taken before and after surgery to evacuate a subdural hematoma, prove beyond doubt that her tragic premature death at the age of 3 in 2018 was not due to a tremendous assault on the morning of March 8, but to an insidious injury incurred or exacerbated the previous afternoon by her hitting her head on a concrete floor when falling off a plastic wheeled toy.

But two child abuse doctors used circular reasoning instead of science to make a tremendous error of opinion about when and how Hannah's fatal injury had ocurred. Because of the doctors' erroneous opinion, Butler County detectives were misled, and wrongfully arrested an innocent woman for an assault that never happened.

And because the detectives were misled, a pathologist followed the doctors up the garden path and misinterpreted the evidence of brain damage found at autopsy.

The jury were advised by the judge, on a technicality, to not take into account the scientifically valid opinion of the surgeon who operated on Hannah, which would have given them reason to doubt the doctors' erroneous opinion. A historical fact offered by a pathology expert that the child abuse doctor's clinical justification for her erroneous opinion was in fact an old idea long since discredited, was hidden from the jury by the judge at the request of the prosecutor with the agreement of the assistant defense counsel.

Because the innocent woman was misled and naive, she allowed herself to be pressured by detectives into making a false confession, and tricked by the prosecutor into seemingly confessing to physical abuse, which misled the jury. Because the jury were both misled and kept in the dark about the doctors' error, the innocent woman was wrongly convicted of a murder that never happened.


r/InnocenceProject • • Jan 13 '24

Why Has the Innocence Project left him incarcerated today?

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r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 08 '22

Study: Prosecutorial Misconduct Helped Secure 550 Wrongful Death Penalty Convictions

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Study: Prosecutorial Misconduct Helped Secure 550 Wrongful Death Penalty Convictions

If we were a rational nation, we would look at the sheer number of exonerations of death row inmates — at least 189 since 1973 — and we would look at those who were wrongly executed, we would look at the statistics that say that it is likely that four percent of those on Death Row are innocent and we would say "You know, maybe we are not good enough at this for such a permanent solution." Hell, even if we just got it wrong once, we should have ended it. Because how on earth do you argue that killing innocent people is so wrong that it deserves the death penalty while also potentially killing innocent people with the death penalty?

A recent study conducted by the Death Penalty Information Center has found 550 cases in which a death penalty or capital conviction was overturned after the discovery of prosecutorial misconduct — which accounts for 5.6 percent all death penalty cases imposed in the last 50 years. This means that since 1972, 8,770 people have been sentenced to death and in 550 of those cases, there was enough prosecutorial misconduct to lead to a reversal or, in 121 of those cases, a full exoneration.

Thirty-five percent of these cases were Brady violations in which the prosecutor deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence. In 33 percent of the cases, the prosecutor made an improper argument — which "encompasses situations where the prosecution makes inflammatory, inappropriate, or unconstitutional statements during the guilt or sentencing phase of the trial." Other reasons included jury discrimination, presenting false evidence (79 cases), jury discrimination (63), improper evidence (51), improper questioning (42), and violation of right to counsel (32).


r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 07 '22

Those exonerated are only a very small percentage of innocent convicts

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https://reason.com/2022/10/11/adnan-syeds-exoneration-shows-how-hard-it-is-to-free-innocent-people/

Adnan Syed's Exoneration Shows How Hard It Is To Free Innocent People.


r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 07 '22

Estimating the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions

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Estimating the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions - Office of Justice Programs

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/251115.pdf


r/InnocenceProject • • Dec 15 '22

TheInnocentConvicts.org client Raymond Gaines Exonerated

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https://www.theinnocentconvicts.org/released

Raymond Gaines was finally exonerated, winning his new trial.

He was initially released in 2021 while his defense team was allowed to look into additional evidence (https://commonwealthmagazine.org/courts/convicted-murderer-raymond-gaines-freed-after-46-years-amid-new-evidence/).

In early December 2022, Judge Debra A. Squires-Lee had the wisdom to overturn Raymond Gaines murder conviction (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-overturns-boston-murder-conviction-for-man-who-served-46-years/ar-AA151NRb).

In addition to proven habitual liar Detective Peter O'Malley's lies & misconduct, there were numerous problems with the prosecution's case including recantations by several witnesses. As is typical of these cases, the Boston District Attorney's Office & Boston Police Department allowed Det. O'Malley to retire, collect pension, & die (in 2017) a hero.

Even despite convincing evidence, the white Boston DA continued to fight & resist Mr. Gaines' freedom & justice in order to ensure that black people remain in prison so that white law enforcement can remain "heroes."


r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 10 '22

Currently fighting a murder charge. I’m innocent and the DDA is fighting dirty out of desperation to win.

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It’s been almost 3 years and I’m still waiting on trial (out on a ridiculously high bail). In the meantime, they gave the DDA on my case a helper and since then they have been coming up with all sorts of reasons to make me look guilty. At first I thought “I’m innocent and this will show in trial”. No one tells you about all the postponing, how the judges always side with the prosecution, how the media twists facts just below libel through technicality, but enough to make you look like a monster - thus destroying my business. I can’t get work and can’t afford to keep fighting this. The county medical examiner cleared me of their allegations, so now they want to hire a specialist to basically change the narrative of their own M.E. I know all they want is a deal & me to take a plea so the D.A.’s conviction rating doesn’t take a hit (and I’m sure to avoid some potential lawsuits for unjust arrest). If I present a deal I could do minimal prison time and attempt to rebuild. But it will be with a murderous felony. It’s so easy to do background checks these days, they are hard to escape when looking for a job or place to live. If I loose, I’m a facing life sentence And if I win, I get to correct the public narrative and actually have a real chance of getting my life back. I totally understand why so many innocent people are in prison. They literally scare the life out of you for political gain. I’m lost. If the judge agrees to allow them to bring on this new expert, we have to file continuance which takes me to June (middle of year 3!) I can’t afford to stay out and fight that long. I know if I don’t stay and fight I’ll spend the rest of my life wondering what would’ve happened if I stuck up for myself? But I’ll be fighting against a contender with the home team advantage and the punishment of a loss is life.


r/InnocenceProject • • Nov 21 '22

Judge reverses his own rape conviction to avoid serving time

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https://news.yahoo.com/judge-said-left-tried-cancel-173500545.html

As yet another example of "American" justice, a judge was able to reverse his own criminal conviction (rape of a 16 y/o girl) to avoid prison time & then actually got re-elected.

What race do you think he was? Do you think a black judge would be allowed to do this?

Black & other non-white ppl go to prison every day with mandatory prison sentences but wht ppl get off because wht ppl are the ones making the decisions.