I just signed the Innocence Project's petition to help prisoners in all 50 states get access to the DNA testing that can prove their innocence.
People in their teens and early 20s are the most affected by wrongful convictions, and I'm standing up with the Innocence Project to help free the wrongfully convicted. Click on the link below to sign the petition today!
CLICK here or type in http://www.innocenceproject.org/petition
Everyone deserves justice
I support DNA testing in every case where it can overturn a wrongful conviction or confirm guilt. Everyone deserves justice, and there is no reason to deny testing that could lead to the exoneration of an innocent person. Post-conviction DNA access benefits the wrongfully convicted and their families and it also helps crime victims, prosecutors, law enforcement officers and the public because it often identifies the true perpetrators of crimes.
The few states without DNA testing laws should immediately enact reforms that explicitly allow access to post-conviction testing.
All 50 states should have laws that ensure that DNA testing, when it has the possibility to overturn a wrongful conviction, is:
available to every person convicted of a crime, regardless of whether he or she is currently incarcerated;
available regardless of whether a convicted person confessed, pled guilty, or has exhausted his or her appeals; and
not subject to an expiration or sunset date.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Stop Wrongful Convictions in California
The three most common causes of wrongful conviction are mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, and false testimony by informants. Modern DNA evidence has proven that innocent people are sent to prison for crimes they did not commit far more often than we think. But we can change that.
The California State Senate created the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice to review the causes of wrongful conviction and wrongful execution in California.
The Commission has issued three interim reports recommending legislative changes to prevent the most common causes of wrongful conviction in California: mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions and the use of jailhouse informants.
Three bills have been introduced to implement the Commission's recommended reforms:
Senate Bill 511 (Alquist) will require the electronic recording of police interrogation in cases involving homicides and other serious felonies.
Senate Bill 756 (Ridley-Thomas) will require the appointment of a task force to draft guidelines for the conduct of police line-ups and photo arrays to increase the accuracy of eyewitness identifications.
Senate Bill 609 (Romero) will require the corroboration of testimony by jailhouse informants.
The California Commission on the Fair Administration a group of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and defense attorneys, has recommended all three reforms.
These reforms will help protect the innocent and make sure the guilty are convicted.
Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to support bills aimed at eliminating wrongful conviction.
Update:Petition ended
Help End Wrongful Convictions - Support SB511, SB756, and SB 609
The California State Senate created the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice to review the causes of wrongful conviction and wrongful execution in California.
The Commission has issued three interim reports recommending legislative changes to prevent the most common causes of wrongful conviction in California: mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions and the use of jailhouse informants.
Three bills have been introduced to implement the Commission's recommended reforms:
Senate Bill 511 (Alquist) will require the electronic recording of police interrogation in cases involving homicides and other serious felonies.
Senate Bill 756 (Ridley-Thomas) will require the appointment of a task force to draft guidelines for the conduct of police line-ups and photo arrays to increase the accuracy of eyewitness identifications.
Senate Bill 609 (Romero) will require the corroboration of testimony by jailhouse informants.
The California Commission on the Fair Administration a group of law enforcement officers, prosecutors and defense attorneys, has recommended all three reforms.
These reforms will help protect the innocent and make sure the guilty are convicted.
Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to support bills aimed at eliminating wrongful conviction.
Update:Petition ended
Help End Wrongful Convictions - Support SB511, SB756, and SB 609
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions
My blog"Barbara's Journey Toward Justice", does not give legal advice and is a nonprofit blog. I do not fill it up with money making ads, and make no profits from it of any kind. I also do not have an Amazon Wish List, which is a blogger's gift registry on Amazon. The purpose of my blog is to bring about awareness of issues in Dennis Fritz's book Journey Toward Justice
I do have a "Barbara's Journey Toward Justice Wish List", and the top of that list is, STOP WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS!
Fifty percent of letters I receive are for help with a petition of some kind. Out of those letters, seventy five percent are for wrongful convictions.
I am not a lawyer and cannot give any legal advice. However, I can help people who have a need for a petition.
You can add a petition of any kind on the internet. There is no charge to have a petition on line.
Below is a petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions. Petition to President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen was created by The Castle of Hope for Lost Souls/The Injustice System and written by Lee Gaylord.
I put a link on bottom to sign.
Please sign petition to fight the wrongful convictions and those who are responsible and send a letter to your Members of the house and senate.
Contact me, if you have a story or petition that you would like me and/or my readers to know about.
The Petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions Petition to President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen
To: President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen
I estimate that more than 10% (possibly 15%) of those in prison are innocent. Many are convicted because of incompetent council. Many are framed by the police and/or prosecutors. In many cases the judges and defense attorneys are involved in the wrongful convictions.
These percentages also carry though to death row prisoners and those who have been executed.
What do we want?
1. An investigation by the F.B.I. into all cases where there is a chance that evidence was tampered with, fabricated and\or concealed in order to convict the innocent person.
2. Investigation into cases where collusion between the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys and/or judges in order to convict a person who is or maybe innocent.
3. Legislation to make these cases (items 1 and 2) Federal Crimes with suggested sentences that will make the perpetrators of these crimes serve as much or more time in prison and those who they had wrongfully convicted.
4. Upon the presentation of evidence and determination that a wrongful conviction may have occurred and new trial will be carried out in the Federal courts if the case was originally on the state or a different Federal judge and prosecutor if it was a Federal case and those who were involved will be investigated and prosecuted.
5. The wrongfully convicted person shall be allowed to sue the parties involved, including the Government agency, for wrongful prosecution and for monetary damages to be determined by a jury, including attorney’s fees, loss of income and mental anguish.
6. Since the wrongfully convicted are mostly black and almost always poor the civil rights laws should apply. Civil rights are being denied to the blacks and/or the poor because they are black and/or poor. Their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are being denied.
These wrongful convictions are a not only a miscarriage of justice but also a disgrace to our American Justice System. There is a lot of money made from the corruption in our justice system and our prison system. A full scale investigation of the system is not only warranted but it is imperative to make the system truly a justice system instead of an injustice system.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
View Current Signatures
You can go
here to sign this one
The Petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions Petition to President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen was created by The Castle of Hope for Lost Souls/The Injustice System and written by Lee Gaylord. This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition
I do have a "Barbara's Journey Toward Justice Wish List", and the top of that list is, STOP WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS!
Fifty percent of letters I receive are for help with a petition of some kind. Out of those letters, seventy five percent are for wrongful convictions.
I am not a lawyer and cannot give any legal advice. However, I can help people who have a need for a petition.
You can add a petition of any kind on the internet. There is no charge to have a petition on line.
Below is a petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions. Petition to President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen was created by The Castle of Hope for Lost Souls/The Injustice System and written by Lee Gaylord.
I put a link on bottom to sign.
Please sign petition to fight the wrongful convictions and those who are responsible and send a letter to your Members of the house and senate.
Contact me, if you have a story or petition that you would like me and/or my readers to know about.
The Petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions Petition to President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen
To: President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen
I estimate that more than 10% (possibly 15%) of those in prison are innocent. Many are convicted because of incompetent council. Many are framed by the police and/or prosecutors. In many cases the judges and defense attorneys are involved in the wrongful convictions.
These percentages also carry though to death row prisoners and those who have been executed.
What do we want?
1. An investigation by the F.B.I. into all cases where there is a chance that evidence was tampered with, fabricated and\or concealed in order to convict the innocent person.
2. Investigation into cases where collusion between the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys and/or judges in order to convict a person who is or maybe innocent.
3. Legislation to make these cases (items 1 and 2) Federal Crimes with suggested sentences that will make the perpetrators of these crimes serve as much or more time in prison and those who they had wrongfully convicted.
4. Upon the presentation of evidence and determination that a wrongful conviction may have occurred and new trial will be carried out in the Federal courts if the case was originally on the state or a different Federal judge and prosecutor if it was a Federal case and those who were involved will be investigated and prosecuted.
5. The wrongfully convicted person shall be allowed to sue the parties involved, including the Government agency, for wrongful prosecution and for monetary damages to be determined by a jury, including attorney’s fees, loss of income and mental anguish.
6. Since the wrongfully convicted are mostly black and almost always poor the civil rights laws should apply. Civil rights are being denied to the blacks and/or the poor because they are black and/or poor. Their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are being denied.
These wrongful convictions are a not only a miscarriage of justice but also a disgrace to our American Justice System. There is a lot of money made from the corruption in our justice system and our prison system. A full scale investigation of the system is not only warranted but it is imperative to make the system truly a justice system instead of an injustice system.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
View Current Signatures
You can go
here to sign this one
The Petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions Petition to President, Attorney General, House and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairmen was created by The Castle of Hope for Lost Souls/The Injustice System and written by Lee Gaylord. This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition
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