Wrongful Convictions

Dartmouth’s new President, Philip Hanlon, has been in office for nearly four months now. It is the height of the fall foliage season and the Ivy League school’s recent Homecoming weekend was highlighted by a spectacular 20-13 win in football over archrival Yale. But the new school year has also been marked by more controversy than usual as rival groups …

This article was originally published on Ground Report by Joseph Bishop, and has been re-published here based on the guidelines of the  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. In just a few weeks a jury in Lebanon, Indiana will deliver a verdict on the guilt or innocence of David Camm. He is the former Indiana State Trooper who has spent the last …

In just a few weeks a jury in Lebanon, Indiana will deliver a verdict on the guilt or innocence of David Camm. He is the former Indiana State Trooper who has spent the last 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife and two young children. His two previous convictions have both been overturned on appeal. This time …

“To say that Amanda embraced the experience as a growing up exercise is a step too far. In my judgement Amanda is loyal, principled, honest, trusting and inherently a private person. It took her (and all of us) a long time to understand that this prosecution was not a cock-up; it was a conspiracy from the start. How deep and …

The following are my educated opinions based on over three years of study about this case. Many people are baffled by the arrest, trial and initial conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. However to clarify, the prosecutor’s methods can be compared to the methods the Roman Catholic Church used during the Inquisitions. Like the Grand Inquisitors, the Perugians used …

“I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers.  I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.  The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.” – Isaac Asimov In a murder inquiry that is carried out …