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- After Exoneration,Jarrett Adams is Helping Others Wrongfully Convicted (4:37)
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Aug 02, 2017 Lester Holt interviews Jarrett Adams, who was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault when he was just 17 and — as an attorney — is now helping others who are in similar positions as he used to be.
- Police in Alabama planted drugs and guns on over 1,000 innocent Black men
By A.R. Shaw, News 2 / Rolling Out, December 3, 2015
Black men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least 12 White police officers involved.
The officers were a part of a narcotics team and were supervised by Lt. Steve Parrish, who is now Dothan’s Police Chief, and Andy Hughes, Asst. Director of Homeland Security for Alabama.
- The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
- The “Times Square Two” Fight to Clear Their Names
Steven Valentino and Jennifer Gonnerman. New Yorker Radio Hour, December 11, 2020. Produced by the New Yorker and WNYC Studios.
As teens, in the nineteen-eighties, Eric Smokes and David Warren were arrested for the robbery and murder of a tourist near Times Square on New Years Eve; an acquaintance had accused them, receving a lighter sentence for an unrelated crime in exchange for coöperating with police. Warren refused a plea deal in which he would have had to accuse Smokes, and both received lengthy sentences.
- This American Life, #282: DIY (55 min)
282: DIY, This American Life, Feb 11, 2005 After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself. He becomes a do-it-yourself investigator. He learns to read court records, he tracks down hard-to-find witnesses, he gets the real murderer to come forward with his story. In the end, he's able to accomplish all sorts of things the police and the professionals can't.