Recent News

• Forensic Confirmation Bias: When the Evidence Doesn't Speak for Itself (Huffington Post, Apr. 29, 2013)
• Exoneree Detectives Fight for Those Still Behind Bars (NPR, Apr. 16, 2013)
• An Exoneration After Decades, and a Conviction (N.Y. Times, Apr. 6, 2013)
• Hard to be at Murder Scene, Jail at Same Time (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 3, 2013)
• Ohio Police Captain Exonerated of Ex-Wife's 1997 Murder Is Released After 15 Years in Prison (The Republic, Jan. 29, 2013)
• Attorneys for Council Bluffs Contest Wrongful Convictions Mistrial (The Daily Nonpareil, Jan. 16, 2013)
• Crime Lab Worker Fired for Mistakes (Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Jan. 11, 2013)
• Getting Prosecutions Right is a Never-Ending Job (Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 9, 2013)
• Judge Declared Mistrial in Wrongful Imprisonment Case (The Daily Nonpareil, Dec. 14, 2012)
• Council Bluffs Wrongful Conviction Case Goes to Jury (Omaha World-Herald, Dec. 8, 2012)
• Louisiana Death Row Inmate Freed After 15 Years - With a Little Help from DNA (The Guardian, Dec. 8, 2012)
• Two of Beatrice 6 Given $800K (Lincoln Journal Star, Sept. 20, 2012)
• Eyewitness Testimony Can Be Problematic at Trial (NPR, July 20, 2012)
• FBI to Review Thousands of Old Cases for Contaminated Evidence (MSNBC, July 12, 2012)
• Mistaken Eyewitness Identification (Iowa Public Radio, July 12, 2012)
• Fire Marshal Mulls Review of 1997 Arson Case (KCRG, July 3, 2012)
• Michigan Finally Eyeing Changes to Lawyers for Poor (NPR, June 14, 2012)
• Former USC Recruit Exonerated for 2002 Rape (L.A. Times, May 24, 2012)
• Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man (The Atlantic, May 14, 2012)
• Cops, Courts Re-evaluate Their Use of Eyewitnesses (ABA Journal, May 2012)
• Free After 25 Years: A Tale of Murder and Injustice (NPR, Apr. 28, 2012)
• National Academy of Sciences Report: A Challenge to the Courts (Criminal Justice, Spring 2012)
• The Evolution of Fire Investigation and Its Impact on Arson Cases (Criminal Justice, Spring 2012)
• The "CSI Effect": Is It Good or Bad for the American Justice System? (Buena Vista Toda, Apr. 2012)
• State Court Allows False-Confession Expert, but Bar is High (N.Y. Times, Mar. 29, 2012)
• Whither False Confessions? (Chicago Bar Association Record, Feb.-Mar. 2012)
• Justice and Prosecutorial Misconduct (N.Y. Times, Dec. 28, 2011)
• Convictions Vacated in '91 Rape, Slaying of Dixmoor Girl (Chicago Tribune, Nov. 3, 2011)
• Spark of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials? (Discover Magazine, Nov. 2011)
• Morton Expected to be Freed Today After 25 Years (Austin Statesman, Oct. 4, 2011)
• Difference Reported in Displays of Suspect Photos (Des Moines Register, Sept. 23, 2011)
• Troy Davis Executed in Georgia Despite Substantial Evidence Pointing to Innocence (The Innocence Project, Sept. 21, 2011)
• Changes to Police Lineup Procedures Cut Eyewitness Mistakes, Study Says (N.Y. Times, Sept. 18, 2011)
• Extinguishing Fires (Drake Law E-News, Aug. 30, 2011)
• Deal Frees 'West Memphis Three' in Arkansas (N.Y. Times, Aug. 20, 2011)
• Press Release: Iowa State Fire Marshal Implements Policy Change to Prevent Wrongful Arson Convictions (July 7, 2011) (PDF*)
• New Evidence on Shaken Baby Syndrome (N.Y. Times Magazine, July 5, 2011)
• Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome (NPR, June 29, 2011)
• The Child Cases: Guilty Until Proven Innocent (NPR, June 28, 2011)
• Murder Charge Dropped Against Mom Who Spent 13 Years in Prison (Toronto Star, June 7, 2011)
• Judge: Utah Woman Imprisoned for Nearly 17 Years Is Exonerated (Salt Lake Tribune, May 2, 2011)
• Appeals Court Affirms Decision for New Murder Trial for David Flores (April 13, 2011)
• Criminal Lineup Reform Enhances Justice, Safety (Orlando Sentinel, Apr. 6, 2011)
• Innocence Network press release: Wrongfully Convicted Urge Action in Wake of Supreme Court Decision Expanding Immunity for Prosecutors (Mar. 28, 2011) (PDF)*
• After 27 Years in Prison, New DNA Evidence Sets Virginia Man Free (NPR, Mar. 22, 2011)
• An Innocent Man (Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune, Mar. 18, 2011)
• Research Shows Innocent Suspects Falsely Confess to Crimes (Iowa State Daily, Feb. 24, 2011)
• Shaken-Baby Syndrome Faces New Questions in Court (N.Y. Times Magazine, Feb. 2, 2011)
• Leahy Proposes Landmark Forensics Reform Legislation (Jan. 25, 2011)
• Dallas County Man Cleared in 1979 Robbery, Rape Will be Texas' Longest-Serving Exoneree (Dallas Morning News, Jan. 3, 2011)
• DNA and Justice Denied (L.A. Times, Dec. 22, 2010)
• QC Man's Goal: Clear His Name After Wife's Death (Quad City Times, Dec. 20, 2010)
• New Trial Ordered in Taunton Arson Case (Boston Globe, Nov. 16, 2010)
• BVU Criminal Justice Program Partners with Innocence Project of Iowa (Nov. 11, 2010)
• Texas Judge Opens Hearing Into Disputed 2004 Execution (CNN.com, Oct. 14,2010)
• Misconduct Cases Taint Justice in Iowa (Des Moines Register, Sept. 24, 2010)
• Prosecutors' Conduct Can Tip Justice Scales (USA Today, Sept. 23, 2010)
• Anatomy of a Misdiagnosis (New York Times, Sept. 20, 2010)
• Confessing to Crime, but Innocent (New York Times, Sept. 13, 2010)
• Press release: Wrongful Conviction Documentary Featured in Iowa City Film Festival August 27 & 28 (PDF)*
• What Causes People to Give False Confessions (Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2010)
• Gruwell Reviews Innocence Project of Iowa (Estherville Daily News, June 11, 2010)
• Group that Cleared Murder Suspect Says it Has Identified Real Killer (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 10, 2010)
• Wrongly Convicted Man Goes Free (Columbus Dispatch, May 5, 2010)
• After 16 Years in Prison, a Whole New World (CNN.com, Mar. 21, 2010)
• Judges Free Inmate on Recommendation of Special Innocence Panel (N.Y. Times, Feb. 17, 2010)
• DNA Evidence Exonerates NY Man of 1976 Rape (Seattle Times, Feb. 4, 2010)
• Prosecutor Conduct Case Before Supreme Court is Settled [Pottawattamie County, Iowa] (L.A. Times, Jan. 5, 2010)
• After 35 Years Freedom in Sight for Florida Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence (CNN.com, Dec. 15, 2009)
• U.S. Supreme Court considers prosecutorial immunity in Pottawattamie County case (National Public Radio, Nov. 4, 2009)
• Dogs Sniff Out Wrong Suspect; Scent Lineups Questioned (CNN.com, Oct. 5, 2009)
• Congress Probes Science Behind Convictions (National Public Radio, Sept. 9, 2009)
• Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man? (New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2009)
• New Report Shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, Executed in Texas in 2004, Was Innocent (Aug. 31, 2009)
• National Research Council: 'Badly Fragmented' Forensic Science System Needs Overhaul (Feb. 18, 2009)
• The case for videotaping interrogations (L.A. Times, Oct. 24, 2008)
• Innocence Project working on first cases in Iowa (Cedar Rapids Gazette, Oct. 9, 2008)
• Editorial: More than a steak dinner (N.Y. Times, Jan. 10, 2008)
• Illinois man freed after 21 years (Chicago Tribune, Jan. 8, 2008)
• DNA exonerates Texas man after 26 years (Houston Chronicle, Jan. 3, 2008)
• 200th exoneration in the United States
• Press release: Innocence Project of Iowa to Begin Taking Cases this Fall (PDF)*

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