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Resources



Exonerations Databases

The National Registry of Exonerations: (Link)

DNA exoneree database: (Link)



Innocence Organizations

The Innocence Project: (Link)

Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Law School: (Link)

The Innocence Network: (Link)

Wisconsin Innocence Project: (Link)

The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence: (Link)

California Innocence Project: (Link)

Northern California Innocence Project: (Link)

Ohio Innocence Project: (Link)

Centurion Ministries: (Link)

The Innocence Network (UK): (Link)



State Innocence Review Commissions

North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission: (Link)

Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK): (Link)



Inquiries, Reports

Department of Justice (1996). Convicted by juries, exonerated by science: Case studies in the use of DNA evidence to establish innocence after trial. (Link)

National Academy of Sciences Report (2009). Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward: (Link)

California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice: (Link)

Report of former Illinois Governor George Ryan's Commission on Capital Punishment: (Link)

Urban Institute, Post Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction: (2012): (Link)

Innocence Commission of Virginia: (Link)

General Accounting Office (1990). Death penalty sentencing: Research indicates pattern of racial disparities. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, (Link)

Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General of the Oversight and Review Division (2006). A review of the FBI's handling of the Brandon Mayfield case. Washington, DC. (Link)

Snyder, L., McQuillian, P., Murphy, W.L., & Joselson, R. (2007). Report on the conviction of Jeffrey Deskovic. (Link)

Canadian Inquiry Regarding the Guy Paul Morin case: (Link)

Canadian Inquiry Regarding the Thomas Sophonow case: (Link)

Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice (National Institute of Justice report): (Link)



Blogs

The Innocence Blog: (Link)

The Wrongful Convictions Blog: (Link)

False Confessions, The Center for Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law: (Link)

Wrongful Convictions, The Center for Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law: (Link)

Crime & Consequences: (Link)



Professional Associations

International Association of Chiefs of Police: (Link)

National Association of District Attorneys: (Link)

National Association for Criminal Defense Lawyers: (Link)

American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section: (Link)

American Judicature Society: (Link)

American Psychology-Law Society: (Link)

American Society of Trial Consultants: (Link)

Crown Prosecution Service (UK): (Link)



Legal Sources

Federal Rules of Evidence: (Link)

Police and Criminal evidence Act ("PACE"), (UK, 1984): (Link)

Judicial Council of California (2012). Criminal jury instructions. (Link)



Conviction Integrity Units

Dallas County, TX, Conviction Integrity Unit: (Link)

Manhattan, NY, Conviction Integrity Unit: (Link)

Santa Clara County, CA, Conviction Integrity Unit: (Link)



Research Institutes

National Institute of Justice: (Link)

National Center for State Courts: (Link)

American Judicature Society, Center for Forensic Science and Public Policy: (Link)

Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT): (Link)

NYU, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law: (Link)

The Center on Media, Crime and Justice, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice: (Link)

Federal Judicial Center: (Link)



Eyewitness Identification

New Jersey:

  1. Attorney General Guidelines for Preparing and Conducting Lineup Identification Procedures: (Link)

  2. NJ Supreme Court decision in State v. Henderson (August 2011): (Link)

  3. Expanded jury instructions (July 2012): (Link)

  4. New court rule mandating the recording of identification procedures (July 2012): (Link)

Texas Eyewitness Identification Model Policy: (Link)

Police Chiefs' Association of Santa Clara County, Line-Up Protocol for Law Enforcement, (Link)

Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, Report of the task Force on Eyewitness Evidence, (Link)

Wisconsin Attorney General, Eyewitness Identification Best Practices: (Link)

Eyewitness Identification, materials for simulating an identification (courtesy of Gary Wells): (Link)

Summary of reforms of eyewitness identification procedures, by state: (Link)

Decision by Oregon Supreme Court reforming admissibility of identifications: (Link)



Interrogation

John E. Rein and Associates, Inc.: (Link)

Schollum, M. (2005). Investigative interviewing: The literature. Wellington, NZ: Office of the Commissioner of Police: (Link)

National Policing Improvement Agency (2009). National investigative interviewing strategy. (Link)

The Case for Recording Police Interrogations, by Thomas P. Sullivan, Andrew W. Vail, & Howard W. Anderson III: (Link)

Summary of reforms regarding the recording of interrogations, by state: (Link)



Books

About Guilt and Innocence: The Origins, Development, and Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure, by Donald Dripps, (Praeger, 2002): (Link)

Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right, by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, & Jim Dwyer (Doubeday, 2000): (Link)

Convicting the Innocent, by Edwin M. Borchard (Yale University Press, 1932).

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong, by Brandon L. Garrett (Harvard University Press, 2011): (Link)

Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons From Psychological Research, by Brian Cutler (American Psychological Association, 2011). (Link)

Criminal Investigations and Confessions, by Fred E. Inbau, John E. Reid, Joseph P. Buckley, & Brian C. Jayne (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012): (Link)

Not Guilty, by Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank (Doubleday, 1957).

Ordinary Justice: How America Holds Court, by Amy Bach (Metropolitan Books, 2009): (Link)

Picking Cotton, by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, & Erin Torneo (St. Martin's Press, 2009): (Link)

Police Interrogation and American Justice, by Richard A. Leo (Harvard University Press, 2009): (Link)

Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent, by Daniel S. Medwed (NYU Press, 2012): (Link)

The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, by William J. Stuntz (Harvard University Press, 2011): (Link)

The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System, by Jon B. Gould (NYU Press, 2007).

The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four, by Tom Wells and Richard A. Leo (The New Press: 2008): (Link)



Documentary Films

After Innocence, Jessica Sanders, Director, Writer, Producer (2005): (Link)

The Thin Blue Line, Earl Morris, Director (1988): (Link)

Death By Fire, Frontline, Jesee Deeter, Director (2010): (Link)

Paradise Lost (3), HBO Documentaries, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Directors (2012): (Link)

The Confessions, Frontline series, PBS, Ofra Bickel, Director (2010): (Link)

The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg, directors (2006): (Link)

What Jennifer Saw Frontline series, PBS, Ben Loeterman, Director & Producer (1997): (Link)



Miscellaneous

Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics: (Link)

Death Penalty Information Center: (Link)

Thomas, C. (2010). Are juries fair? Ministry of Justice Research Series 1/10 (UK). (Link)

The Crime Report: (Link)

The Justice Project (2007). Expanded discovery in criminal cases; A policy review. (Link)