http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:28:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ulysses Rodriguez Charles served 17 years in Massachusetts prison for a rape and robbery he didn't commit before he was exonerated in 2001. In June, he was arrested and jailed pending deportation to his native Trinidad, despite his pending civil rights lawsuit against the Boston Police Department. His mother, who ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/federal-judge-don%e2%80%99t-deport-exoneree/ Nine months after he was exonerated in Houston, Ronnie Taylor is building a new life. He lives in Atlanta and is married to his longtime girlfriend, Jeanette Brown, who waited for him while he served 14 years behind bars. He owns his own lawn care business.(He) says that "everything's going ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/ronnie-taylor%e2%80%99s-long-road-to-freedom/ After spending two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Scott Fappiano was exonerated on October 6, 2006. Tuesday marked his two-year anniversary.Fappiano was convicted of a Brooklyn, New York, rape in 1983 and sentenced to 20-50 years in prison. The victim of the crime was the ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/new-york-man-marks-second-exoneration-anniversary/ Jerry Miller spent nearly 25 years in Illinois prison for a rape he didn't commit, and one year on parole as a registered sex offender, before DNA testing obtained by attorneys at the Innocence Project proved his innocence. On April 23, 2007, he became the 200th person exonerated by DNA ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/putting-the-pieces-back-together-illinois-exoneree-talks-about-his-first-year-of-freedom/ As the deadline nears for Michigan lawmakers to renew a DNA access bill, there is speculation about when - or whether - the State Senate will act to extend the rights of prisoners to apply for DNA testing that can prove their innocence.Donna McKneelen, the co-director of the Innocence Project ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/deadline-approaches-in-michigan/ After Detroit officials closed the city's police crime lab two weeks ago, prosecutors vowed to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the lab's 10 percent error rate. But defense attorneys said yesterday that a review by prosecutors isn't good enough, and they called for an independent audit ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/lawyers-call-for-independent-lab-review-in-detroit/ The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet on Friday to discuss the fate of Troy Davis, who has been on Georgia's death row since 1989 for a murder he says he didn't commit. Although some observers had expected the justices to discuss the case yesterday, they issued orders ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/supreme-court-quiet-so-far-on-troy-davis-case/ Robert Caulley has been in prison since 1997 for the murder of his parents - a crime he says he didn't commit. He was the first to report the crime, calling police to tell them he found his parents bludgeoned to death in their Grove City, Ohio, home. But three ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/dna-tests-point-to-ohio-man%e2%80%99s-innocence/ A roundup of stories we didn't get to on the Innocence Blog this week.Charges were dropped this week against Arthur Johnson, a Mississippi man who spent 16 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit. Johnson was represented by attorneys at the Innocence Project New Orleans. More on his ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/the-week-in-review-3/ With five weeks left in the Michigan State Senate's legislative session, the deadline for lawmakers to extend a critical DNA access law is fast approaching. For months, the Senate Judiciary Committee has stalled progress of a bill to extend the state's DNA access law, which allows prisoners to apply for ... http://innocenceprojectbournemouth.com/innocence-project-usa/a-call-to-action-in-michigan/