Advancing Justice in Kentucky by Gordon Rahn, Kentucky Innocence Project
Frankfort, March 2008 b There is an old adage that says b if it ainbt broken, donbt fix it.b But we all know that everything can be improved upon, and that was the underlying theme of the Advancing Justice Conference held November 16, 2007 at the Brandeis School of Law on the campus of the University of Louisvilleb&
What Went Wrong, Part I by Melanie Lowe
Recent releases of wrongfully convicted defendants highlight the problems continuing to plague the criminal justice system. At this time, newly freed men within our Commonwealth are experiencing the series of milestones only occurring in the realm of those known as b the exonerated.b They hug their familiesb&
What Went Wrong (Part II): Coercive Police Tactics as a Recipe for False Confessions by Melanie Lowe
On September 20, 2006, DNA tests proved that Jeffrey Deskovic did not commit a rape and murder in New York for which he was convicted in 1990. He was convicted when he was 16. Now 32, he had been in incarcerated ever since. On November 17, 1989, the body of 15-year-old Angela Correa wasb&
What Went Wrong (Part III): Eyewitness Memory and Misidentification by Melanie Lowe
In the early morning hours of May 22, 1988, Herman Maybs life changed forever. At approximately 3:00 a.m. in the backyard of a house in Frankfort, an unknown assailant raped and sodomized a female University of Kentucky student. The initial description of the attacker wasb&