GEORGETOWN -- The man who prosecuted Michael Morton apologized Wednesday. However, the daughter of another murder victim isn't buying it 25 years after the fact.
Caitlin Baker's mother, Debra, was murdered in 1988, two years after Christine Morton was murdered. Baker says if the district attorney at the time, Ken Anderson, had prosecuted the right man, perhaps her mother would still be …
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DA in the Michael Morton case apologizes for wrongful conviction
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Report: DOJ no CSI-Fails to Enforce Forensic Oversight
March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
North Country Gazette-Chestertown, NY
A report released by the Innocence Project shows that nearly five years after Congress passed legislation to ensure that forensic negligence and misconduct are properly investigated, the law is largely being ignored due to a lack of federal guidance and, as a result, serious problems in crime labs and other forensic facilities nationwide have not been …
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‘I Spent 16 Years in Jail for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. Here’s What Should Be Done’
September 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
September 17, 2008
Jeffrey Deskovic-Alternet.ORG-San Francisco, CA
I was wrongfully convicted in 1990 of a murder and rape in Peekskill, N.Y. DNA taken from semen found in the victim did not match my DNA. But misconduct at every stage of the criminal justice system led me to spend 16 years of my life in prison. That misconduct included a coerced, false confession when I was 16, extracted …
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