NCRJ President Mike Snedeker is interviewed for The Atlantic.
http://69.195.124.104/~ncrjorg/in-texas-a-new-law-lets-defendants-fight-bad-science/
Archive for the ‘Sex Panic’ Category
In Texas, a New Law Lets Defendants Fight Bad Science
Saturday, March 1st, 2014Woody Allen and the Virtual Lynch Mob…
Sunday, February 16th, 2014
By Mark Godsey
Director, Center for the Global Study of Wrongful Conviction;
Director, Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project
http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2014/02/13/woody-allen-and-the-virtual-lynch-mob/
Woody Allen and the Virtual Lynch Mob…
Saturday, February 15th, 2014“While I, of course, cannot be certain about what happened any more than those who would condemn Allen on the spot, I can say this: Some of the earmarks of a false allegation can be seen in this case. There are reasons to be concerned, just as many of the investigators and child psychologists were so gravely concerned when they closely interviewed the seven-year-old Dylan Farrow back in 1992 and told the authorities they believed the allegations were false.”
http://wrongfulconvictionsblog.org/2014/02/13/woody-allen-and-the-virtual-lynch-mob/
The writer, Mark Godsey, heads the Ohio Innocence Project.
Our misguided child porn laws do little to protect children
Saturday, February 15th, 2014
(AP Photo/WJLA-TV)
In fact, it is not clear why mere possession of child pornography should ever be grounds for locking people in cages. The Supreme Court’s main rationale for upholding the ban on possession was that demand for this material encourages its production, which necessarily involves the abuse of children. But this argument has little relevance now that people who look at child pornography typically get it online for free. Furthermore, people who possess “sexually obscene images of children” — production of which need not entail abuse of any actual children — face the same heavy penalties. “They are not protecting a single child,” Boland says. “They are throwing people in prison for having dirty thoughts and looking at dirty pictures.”
News Alert: Federal Appeal Filed in Fr Gordon MacRae Case
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014Wrongfully Convicted Dr. James Krivacska
Sunday, February 9th, 2014Jury Awards 9 Million to Wrongfully Imprisoned Cop
Sunday, February 9th, 2014Sharon Krause was also instrumental in sending an innocent mother, Lynn Malcom, to prison. The NCRJ has long sponsored Lynn’s case.
“Justice was served — even though it took 30 years,” Zellner said. “We were able to prove they framed him. We’ve proven the evidence was fabricated. And, after 30 years, that’s remarkable. Justice is alive and well in Washington.”
http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/feb/03/jury-awards-9-million-spencer/
Coakley Should Apologize for Fells Acres Mistakes
Sunday, February 2nd, 2014This editorial says what needs to be said about Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who — unfortunately — is now the leading candidate to become the next governor of the commonwealth.
“I see two moral or ethical lessons from this tragic case. The first is the continuing inability of the political ambitious and powerful to admit to a mistake. We do live in difficult media age where politicians are instantaneously crucified on Facebook, Twitter, political blogs, entertainment channels, and the 24/7 cable TV media. Underneath the criticisms, I do believe people are forgiving and would appreciate political honesty. Well, hopeful, anyhow.
“Secondly, the more frightening aspect of this tale is wholesale power we entrust to any one individual, especially when it comes to criminal prosecution, providing almost unlimited taxpayer-funded resources and authority shielded behind an elective office. The individual thus comes to symbolize or becomesthe state apparatus. True, nationally and in every state, this particular case that is such an egregious example.”
http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20140201/OPINION/140209771/11609/OPINION
Slate reprises the Kellers, satanic panic, and NCRJ’s role in stopping it.
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
“It sounds laughable,” says Debbie Nathan, an investigative reporter who co-wrote Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt about the panic and is now a director for the National Center for Reason and Justice, which took up the Kellers’ cause. But there is certainly historical precedent, going back even further than the Salem witch trials: Ancient Romans, for example, claimed that Christians ate babies; Christians later claimed that Jews used Christian babies’ blood in religious rituals.
From Slate There is also a video featuring NCRJ Advisor Dr. James Wood.
The Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse
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USA Today and Time Magazine on the San Antonio Four and the Kellers
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
“This is not just a Texas problem. This is happening all over the country,” Saloom said. “Texas just happens to be a leader in its willingness to reconsider convictions based on such evidence.”
The women, along with another on parole, and the Kellers have been professing their innocence in separate cases for almost two decades. Thanks to the nation’s first law recognizing advances in forensic science, they are out of prison with a chance at exoneration.
