Justice for all: innocence projects in more than 40 states work hard to overturn wrongful convictions and expose systematic errors and official misconduct.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education › June 23, 2011
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Justice for all: innocence projects in more than 40 states work hard to overturn wrongful convictions and expose systematic errors and official misconduct.
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In 1998, Anthony Porter was literally a dead man walking. He had been convicted of a 1982 double murder and was on Illinois' death row. Both the Illinois and U.S. supreme courts had turned away his appeals for a new trial, and he came within 48 hours of execution. However, in 1999, he was found innocent after the actual killer gave a videotaped confess...See the full content of this document
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