This week, several cold cases were in the news. Rockfort Police (IL) announced an arrest in the 1998 murder of Debbie Lynn Logsdon. “Richard L. Brown was served a warrant last Friday for first-degree murder. Deputy Police Chief Greg Lindmark would not say what new piece of evidence led police to Brown, but he attributed the [...]
Tags: Crime, David Burgess, Hawley Harvey Crippen, Joe Arridy, Lucely "Lily" Aramburi, Mental Retardation, Mitochondrial DNA, William Thomas ZeiglerToday, Innocence Project’s client Freddie Peacock became the 250th person exonerated through DNA evidence in the United States of America. Peacock was convicted in New York in 1976 of a rape he didn’t commit based on an eyewitness misidentification and a false confession that police claimed he made during an interrogation. Peacock, who has severe [...]
Tags: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, Death Row, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Innocence Project, Mental Retardation, Miscarriage of Justice, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Prisons, Victim, Witnesses, Wrongful ConvictionsOn March 8, 1987, fire fighters were called to the Mayfair Gardens Elderly Housing Complex, Manchester, Connecticut. They found Mrs. Bernice Martin, 88 years old, barely breathing, and badly beaten. She died later that evening in the hospital. To many the case is closed. Convicted for her murder is her granddaughter’s former husband, Richard A. [...]
Tags: Bernice Martin, Capital Punishment, Connecticut, Crime Labs, Dandy Walker Syndrome, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, FBI, Finger Printing, Forensics, Ineffective Assistance of Council, Mental Retardation, Miscarriage of Justice, Police, Police Misconduct, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Richard A. Lapointe, Victim, Wiretaps, WitnessesThe New York Times reports that ”the US Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of a mentally impaired Alabama man who killed his former lover. The court, in a 7-2 vote, refused to overturn the death sentence of Holly Wood, who was convicted in the shooting death of his former girlfriend, Ruby Lois Gosha, in 1993. She [...]
Tags: Alabama, Appeals Procedure, Capital Punishment, Ineffective Assistance of Council, Mental Retardation, USSC
