#wrongfulconvictionday

#Repost @jasonstrong1 (with @report.for.insta) ... The International Wrongful Conviction Day Committee is launching a series called Pursuit of Innocence. It's a series featuring exonerees, organizers and more speaking about the impact of Wrongful Convictions, and the importance of Wrongful Conviction Day. Episodes coming soon. @wrongfulconvictionday @mamadukes4life @innocencenetwork @mjwwong #wrongfulconviction #WrongfulConvictionDay #justicechampion #exonerate #rightingwrongfulconvictions #innocence #innocencenetwork #pursuitofinnocence #friendsoffrank #makeadifference #injustice #change https://www.instagram.com/p/CF3Zy2gH6p3/?igshid=3txodv9a7p4b

#Repost @jasonstrong1 (with @report.for.insta) ... It's Wrongful Conviction Day. Please get involved. Learn more about this issue, and discover ways that you can help fight against these injustices. I lost 15 1/2 years in prison for a crime I didn't commit. I am very fortunate to be free today. It is not easy to reverse wrongful convictions. The Innocence Network, and individual Innocence Projects around the world need your help. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's tome "The Gulag Archipelago" a prisoner from the Soviet gulag is quoted as saying, "Only those can understand us who ate from the same bowl with us". While people may never be able to fully know or understand that which we experience through wrongful conviction, they can still learn many things from our stories. They can learn how these tragedies occur, how often this happens, and how they can help fight for justice. Together we can help free more innocent people, and make changes that will help stop many of these injustices from happening. Together we can make a difference. @innocencenetwork #wrongfulconviction #WrongfulConvictionDay #justicechampion #exonerate #rightingwrongfulconvictions #innocence #innocencenetwork #friendsoffrank #change #truth #makeadifference #compassion #getinvolved https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2cu4dnm8R/?igshid=dx1p288zbzja

#Repost @mollyparmer (with @report.for.insta) ... No innocent person should ever spend a day in prison, and yet innocent people are wrongfully convicted and incarcerated, both in the United States and in countries all around the world, everyday. Some innocent people spend decades in prison, fighting for freedom; some are subjected to cruel and unusual punishment; and some are sentenced to death. Widespread public education, awareness, and advocacy is key to preventing wrongful conviction. Today — International Wrongful Conviction Day — is a day to raise awareness of the causes and remedies of wrongful conviction and to recognize the tremendous personal, social, and emotional costs of wrongful conviction for innocent people and their families. The photos in this post are of two of my friends who have been wrongfully convicted: Jimmie Gardner was convicted of sexual assault in 1990 and spent 27 years behind bars in West Virginia’s prison system. Once a Chicago Cubs pitching prospect, he saw his promising career as a professional athlete derailed abruptly when he was imprisoned based on falsified forensic evidence — and what a judge later called “a complete miscarriage of justice.” John Jerome White served more than 22 years as a result of his wrongful conviction for rape and robbery. Efforts by attorneys and student interns at the Georgia Innocence Project led to the DNA testing that finally proved White’s innocence. Unfortunately, Jimmie and John are not anomalies. Studies estimate that between 3 and 5 percent of all US prisoners are actually innocent. With the number of incarcerated Americans being approximately 2.4 million, by that estimate as many as 120,000 people may be incarcerated as a result of wrongful conviction. Let today be a reminder of this harrowing aspect of our criminal system. Donate, spread the word, educate yourself, and try to be half as grateful, warm, and positive as my friends Jimmie and John. #wrongfulconvictionday #october2 #innocence #endmassincarceration #exonerate #freedom #liberty #justice #criminaldefense #notguilty #georgiainnocenceproject https://www.instagram.com/p/CF16HBqnaHZ/?igshid=gf9fl0yipy1x

#Repost @bringbrookinshome (with @report.for.insta) ... #bringbrookinshome #undisclosedpodcast #freejohnbrookins #wrongfulconvictionday #testthedna https://www.instagram.com/p/CF15QHAHmdw/?igshid=6fdmdu8ua8kf

I’m a day late but I wanted to share a photo of Herbert Murray for #WrongfulConvictionDay. I met Herbert while reporting on the Close Rikers Campaign and have known him for a year and a half. He was arrested in 1979 and spent 29 years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit. He got parole 10 years ago and has been fighting for his exoneration ever since. (at Times Square, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoezLpJFf_S/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lazzwsn0hexy

Meet Gregory Bright. Greg Bright and his co-defendant, Earl Truvia, were convicted in 1975 of the second-degree murder of Eliot Porter in the New Orleans Calliope Housing Project. They were sentenced to life without parole. At the time, Mr. Bright was 20 years old and Mr. Truvia was 17. Until they were arrested together, they hardly knew each other. The convictions were based solely on the testimony of a single eyewitness who said she watched Mr. Bright and Mr. Truvia from her window go around the corner with a young boy and emerge without him. Unbeknownst to the jury, the coroner had placed the time of the death significantly later than the time the eyewitness said she saw Mr. Bright and Mr. Truvia from her window. Unbeknownst to the jury, the eyewitness was a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations, medicating her mental illness with heroin, giving the police information in exchange for cash and testifying under a false name to conceal her own criminal history. Because the defendants' lawyers did no investigation, the jury also did not know that there was no line of sight from the witness’s window to the place she said she saw Mr. Bright and Mr. Truvia. The State also concealed from the jury—and for decades after Mr. Bright and Mr. Truvia’s convictions—that there were the two other likely suspects whose identiies were contained in a police report from the time. Illiterate when he first entered prison, Mr. Bright taught himself to read and write, and then taught himself the law. He challenged his conviction in the courts all the way to the State Supreme Court before a lawyer from Innocence Project New Orleans (IPNO) stepped in to help unravel his case. In 2002, IPNO presented all of the evidence in Mr. Bright and Mr. Truvia’s case to a court in Orleans Parish, including several alibi witnesses for each defendant that neither of their lawyers ever bothered to contact. The court overturned their convictions and was upheld by the Louisiana Supreme Court. On June 24, 2003, after 27 ½ years in prison for a crime they did not commit, Mr. Bright and Mr. Truvia were both released after the Orleans Parish District Attorney dismissed all charges. They left prison with nothing but a $10 check each from the State of Louisiana and garbage bags full of legal paperwork. #wrongfulconvictionday — Guest write up and photo compliments of the Innocence Project New Orleans @_ipno_ via @bowtiesandbigdreams 🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/BoclWzZj1Gz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=isj6kwb6zgr7

A bit late but still #wrongfulconviction #wrongfulconvictionday #guiltywhileblack #corruptcops #badjusticesystem #badcops #badlawyers not really about finding the #criminal but about just #closingacase #guilty or not https://www.instagram.com/p/Boc4cGInNp0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=199rapcd7w7is

@Regran_ed from @innocencepa - Another thing to remember on #WrongfulConvictionDay is that reintegration can be very difficult for exonerees, especially if they are not compensated. Check out this NYTimes article on how Antoine Day and others have been healing through music: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/arts/music/exoneree-band-wrongfully-convicted.html - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BocucUSAA3X/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kslvkptx67jt