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After reading "Journey Toward Justice" by Dennis Fritz, I decided to join his Journey. To bring Public awareness of issues. Such as : Wrongful Convictions - Death Penalty - The Exonerated - Faith - The Criminal Justice System and The Innocence Project
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Fritz's case was recounted by novelist John Grisham in the non-fiction book "The Innocent Man."
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DENNIS FRITZ NEWS ARTICLES 2009 New Feature
- A matter of life or death. First Christian Church supports doing away with death penalty.
- New York Yimes by Jim Dwyer - In the Face of Great Loss, Embracing Innocence
- Dennis Fritz at Phillip H. Hart Auditorium (McDonough Hall), Georgetown University Law Center - The Exonerated and the U.S. Supreme Court: What’s at Stake in Osborne - The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
- Supreme Court Urged to Recognize Constitutional Right to Post-Conviction DNA Testing
- SUPREME COURT: Is There a Constitutional Right to DNA Testing?
- High court considers convicts' rights to DNA testing
- Buena Vista University: ACES Brings Wrongfully Convicted Man to Campus
- Road Trip for Justice - Missouri Western State University
- Dennis Fritz Opposes The Death Penalty - Missouri Western hosted the Road Trip for Justice, a series of speaking tours about the Death Penalty
- Dennis Fritz Speaks at MU
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Dennis Fritz Receives PASS Award For His Book "Journey Toward Justice"
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
PASS Awards 2008
The PASS Awards (Prevention for a Safer Society) is the only national recognition of print and broadcast journalists, TV news and feature reporters, producers, and writers, and those in film and literature who try to focus America’s attention on our criminal justice system, juvenile justice system, and child welfare systems in a thoughtful and considerate manner.
NCCD, National Council on Crime and Delinquency established the PASS Awards to commemorate the media’s success in illuminating the stories about people and programs that promise to protect children against neglect and abuse, and against involvement in crime.
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
The NCCD Mission
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency, founded in 1907, is a nonprofit organization that promotes effective, humane, fair, and economically sound solutions to family, community, and justice problems.
NCCD conducts research, promotes reforminitiatives, and seeks to work with individuals, public and private organizations,and the media to prevent and reduce crime and delinquency.
PASS Awards 2008
The PASS Awards (Prevention for a Safer Society) is the only national recognition of print and broadcast journalists, TV news and feature reporters, producers, and writers, and those in film and literature who try to focus America’s attention on our criminal justice system, juvenile justice system, and child welfare systems in a thoughtful and considerate manner.
NCCD, National Council on Crime and Delinquency established the PASS Awards to commemorate the media’s success in illuminating the stories about people and programs that promise to protect children against neglect and abuse, and against involvement in crime.
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
The NCCD Mission
The National Council on Crime and Delinquency, founded in 1907, is a nonprofit organization that promotes effective, humane, fair, and economically sound solutions to family, community, and justice problems.
NCCD conducts research, promotes reforminitiatives, and seeks to work with individuals, public and private organizations,and the media to prevent and reduce crime and delinquency.
CONTACT DENNIS FRITZ
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Bio Of Dennis Fritz
Dennis Fritz was an ordinary man living an ordinary life in Ada, Oklahoma. A school teacher whose wife was brutally murdered in 1975, Dennis was raising his young daughter on his own. On the fateful evening of May 8, 1987, Dennis was enveloped by a sudden foreboding sensation. He could not explain the eerie feeling in his gut—the sense that something is about to happen. Two hours later, he was under arrest, handcuffed and on his way to jail on charges of rape and murder.
From the outset the evidence against Dennis and his eccentric friend, Ron Williamson, in the murder of Debbie Sue Carter were non-conclusive.
An overzealous prosecutor, intent on winning, relied on flimsy circumstantial data to create the illusion of guilt. Distorted statements, questionable testimony of a jailhouse informant, faulty hair evidence, dream confessions and other bizarre clues completed the prosecution’s circle of deception.
Dennis was convicted after a swift trial. The vote of a single juror saved him from the death penalty and he was sentenced to life behind bars. His co-defendant, Ronnie Williamson, was sentenced to death.
In prison, Dennis immediately immersed himself in an intense study of the law and wrote hundreds of letters and appellate briefs in his own defense—hoping against hope that someone would take an interest in his case. It was a tortuous journey, but Dennis was relentless.
After ten desperate years he discovered the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization devoted to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through post-conviction DNA testing. With the aid of Barry Scheck and irrefutable DNA evidence, Dennis and Ron were exonerated. The real killer, who turned out to be one of the prosecution’s key witnesses, was finally brought to justice.
On April 15, 1999, after twelve years of wrongful imprisonment, Dennis and Ron were free men.
Their long journey toward justice was finally over.
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Dennis Fritz was an ordinary man living an ordinary life in Ada, Oklahoma. A school teacher whose wife was brutally murdered in 1975, Dennis was raising his young daughter on his own. On the fateful evening of May 8, 1987, Dennis was enveloped by a sudden foreboding sensation. He could not explain the eerie feeling in his gut—the sense that something is about to happen. Two hours later, he was under arrest, handcuffed and on his way to jail on charges of rape and murder.
From the outset the evidence against Dennis and his eccentric friend, Ron Williamson, in the murder of Debbie Sue Carter were non-conclusive.
An overzealous prosecutor, intent on winning, relied on flimsy circumstantial data to create the illusion of guilt. Distorted statements, questionable testimony of a jailhouse informant, faulty hair evidence, dream confessions and other bizarre clues completed the prosecution’s circle of deception.
Dennis was convicted after a swift trial. The vote of a single juror saved him from the death penalty and he was sentenced to life behind bars. His co-defendant, Ronnie Williamson, was sentenced to death.
In prison, Dennis immediately immersed himself in an intense study of the law and wrote hundreds of letters and appellate briefs in his own defense—hoping against hope that someone would take an interest in his case. It was a tortuous journey, but Dennis was relentless.
After ten desperate years he discovered the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization devoted to exonerate the wrongfully convicted through post-conviction DNA testing. With the aid of Barry Scheck and irrefutable DNA evidence, Dennis and Ron were exonerated. The real killer, who turned out to be one of the prosecution’s key witnesses, was finally brought to justice.
On April 15, 1999, after twelve years of wrongful imprisonment, Dennis and Ron were free men.
Their long journey toward justice was finally over.
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January 2006
The Beginning of My Journey -
Well, I just read " Journey Toward Justice " by Dennis Fritz
I can tell you about it, but I will show you what one critic said.
Praise For: Journey Toward Justice By: Dennis Fritz - From John Grisham
The story of the unwarranted prosecution and wrongful conviction of Dennis Fritz is compelling and fascinating. After serving eleven years for a murder he did not commit, Dennis was exonerated and had the strength and courage to put his life back together. - - John Grisham
The Beginning of My Journey -
Well, I just read " Journey Toward Justice " by Dennis Fritz
I can tell you about it, but I will show you what one critic said.
Praise For: Journey Toward Justice By: Dennis Fritz - From John Grisham
The story of the unwarranted prosecution and wrongful conviction of Dennis Fritz is compelling and fascinating. After serving eleven years for a murder he did not commit, Dennis was exonerated and had the strength and courage to put his life back together. - - John Grisham
9 comments:
I still have 15 minutes before I get to watch Dateline..but I heard from the East Coast it floored them!
Wow, what a great show - left me wanting to hear more!
I will now have to read Dennis Fritz's book "Journey Toward Justice" to learn more about his experience.
Thank you for this blog - lots of great information!
Great Show! Fascinating story! Will now have to read Dennis Fritz's "Journey Toward Justice"!
The East Coast was right...it FLOORED ME! What a story....
I did read Journey Toward Justice and now seeing the story I'll have to read it again.
This issue is a serious problem in America. People have no idea how close they can be to being framed by prosecutorial misconduct. Way to go Dateline and John Grisham for covering this story in THE INNOCENT MAN! See also our story here in the USA! Thank YOU!
http://wrongfullyaccusedinusa.blogspot.com/
Oh...just remembered something else. Dateline did a story back in 2001 about Ron and Greg, and all of the footage of Ron in this new episode comes from that story. There is one shot of Ron where he gets a hug from a guy as he's leaving the courtroom. That guy is Greg.
The main focus of my own site is politics rather than criminal justice. However, that means I've got a lot of people in state legislatures that know me and know me well, and I plan to talk to them about sponsoring legislation based on the Innocence Project;s initiatives.
We had an execution here a little over two weeks ago that I think was an awful one. Philip Workman got the needle on May 9 for a botched robbery in Memphis where a policeman ended up being killed. The problem is that he didn't do it--- All forensic analysis says the bullet came not from his gun, but was entirely consistent with an accidental shooting from another policeman on the scene. The wound on the policeman's chest was consistent with an exit wound, and the one on his back was consistent with entry. Workman was using hollowpoint ammo that typically doesn't exit at all, and the police .38 ammo typically does exit.
Another man is sitting on our death row now even after the Supreme Court of the United States ordered a new trial and said there was reasonable doubt in the case. Paul Gregory House, according tothe state, sexually assaulted a woman and killed her to cover it up. The sexual assault was used as an aggravating factor and made him eligible for the death penalty.
The problem is that DNA testing has proven conclusively that the semen on the victim's body belonged not to him, but to her husband, who according to two witnesses, has made at least one drunken confession to the crime.
The only physical evidence against him could well be the result of investigative sloppiness. His jeans were taken into custody because investigators thought they saw blood on them. Either four or five (I'd have to consult my notes to be sure) vials of blood were taken as well, but only about half that amount actually made it back to the lab. Not saying the police necessarily used it to intentionally frame House, but it looks like, at the very least, the vials were improperly sealed and leaked onto the other evidence.
The defendant's advanced state of MS also makes it unlikely that he could have phsically committed the crime--- He would have to have covered two miles on foot and committed the crime within about a 40 minute window--- A challenge for a normal man.
I'm in the midst of doing a series of articles on wrongful conviction now. Come and check me out at http://thefreedonian.blogspot.com .
Dateline did an excellent job of laying out the facts of both cases (Fritz and Williamson and Ward and Fontenot).
Those who get comfortable, thinking that this only happens in Ada, or it happened over 20 years ago and times have changed, or it doesn't happen where I live and it can't happen to me, need to think again. Ada, Oklahoma is repeated over and over, across the US.
No one can provide accurate statistics on this because, even when people are cleared by DNA, the state, with rare exception, refuses to concede their innocence. The high percentage of innocent people who plead guilty or no contest further obscures a head count with even a stab at accuracy. But The Mid-Atlantic Innocence reports: “Based in part on a 1996 National Institute of Justice Report, reasonably credible estimates are that up to 10 percent of our national prison population may be factually innocent of the crimes of which were convicted. In other words, there may be close to 200,000 innocent people currently serving time in American prisons.”
As Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson, and Thomas Ward and Karl Fontenot, and thousands more like them illustrate, it can happen to anyone.
It can happen to you.
Thank you so much for your comment and linking me to your site. I believe there is power in numbers and the more we can increase awareness to the American public about the lack of safety for us naive innocent folks and about the corruption there is in our INjustice system the more chance we may impose reform and accountability for our legislation!
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