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Shocking news from the Italian Courts – Amanda Knox and her boyfriend have had their Murder convictions overturned and have been released from prison today.   While there are two camps – those that believe in their guilty and those who believe they were innocent – no one will ever know with certainty what happened in […]

Text Messages as Evidence in Pennsylvania Criminal Cases The recent explosion of cell phone technology has changed the way individuals communicate with each other.  As such, the courts have to react to these new forms of communication and create appropriate guidelines for how they should be admitted into evidence.  In the recent Pennsylvania Superior Court […]

Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Wrongful Convictions Calls for Safeguards To Protect Innocent Defendants The Report of the Advisory Committee on Wrongful Convictions was finally published this week after years of research. Its findings and conclusions were based on several key principles. The first was that in order for citizens to have confidence in the justice […]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has refused to hear the District Attorney’s Appeal of a Superior Court PCRA ruling that will require the Montgomery County District Attorney to produce evidence collected from a 1986 Murder scene for DNA testing. Steven Fairlie argued the case with the Innocence Project before the Honorable S. Gerald Corso, who ruled […]

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently changed the rules regarding eyewitness identification as set forth in State v. Henderson. The basis for these changes is evidence that showed eyewitness identification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. In New Jersey, three out of five overturned cases involve mistaken eyewitness identification. We […]