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Joyce Ann Brown,68, Exoneree who Advocated for the Wrongfully Convicted

(Dallas, Texas) – Joyce Ann Brown who spent nine years in prison for a 1980 murder that she did not commit died Saturday at the Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas. According to her daughter, Koquice Spencer, she had suffered a massive heart attack and stroke earlier in the week. She was 68 years old. After her release from prison …

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Why Is Mclean County State's Attorney Jason Chambers Lying About Jamie Snow Case?

Jamie Snow supporters were made aware this week that Mclean County State’s Attorney Jason Chambers has yet again given a blatantly false statement concerning the Jamie Snow case. This is the second time that he has disseminated this lie in a public forum. Supporters have been left with no choice but to ask for a public retraction. A letter was …

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Amanda Knox haters target Richard Branson

  “Questions need answering in Amanda Knox case, everyone deserves fair treatment & a fair trial.” – Richard Branson Following a Tweet published by Richard Branson on Thursday December 18th, Amanda Knox hating trolls have gone into overdrive.  Branson referred to leading website Injustice in Perugia – www.injusticeinperugia.org – set up by leading pro innocence advocate Bruce Fischer and others, …

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Deborah Cavendish, Last of the Mitford Sisters, Dies at 94

(Derbyshire, United Kingdom) – Deborah Cavendish, the last of the six famed and eccentric Mitford sisters who were prominent in English society in the years surrounding World War II, died last week at the age of 94. Aristocratic, iconic, and glamorous, the sisters helped to define a feminine role, very different from today’s, in a long lost era. In the …

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The right to a fair trial and the right to a defence

Would you go into a boxing ring against a tough opponent with both hands tied behind your back?  The question is so ridiculous that it hardly needs an answer.  Yet apparently that is the way some people think courts should be run.  They believe that an accused person should have no recourse to defence. Serious crimes happen every day.  Police …

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North Carolina Court Releases Two Men Imprisoned for 30 Years

(Lumberton, N.C) — Two North Carolina men were released from prison last week after having spent more than 30 years behind bars for a crime that the courts and prosecutors now believe they did not commit. Henry McCollum and his half-brother Leon Brown had both spent time on North Carolina’s death row for the 1983 murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie. …

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