Articles by DarrenMWinter

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Police forensic services failing basic quality tests, government regulator says

February 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

The government’s forensic regulator Gillian Tully says that police forensic services fail to meet standards, according to this report in The Guardian. The report is [...]

Detroit man released after serving 25 years for murder

February 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

A man who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit is suing two former Detroit police officers, alleging that they fabricated ballistics evidence used to [...]

Stephen Simmons’s 40-year old conviction cleared – thanks to an Internet search

February 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

A man found guilty of stealing mailbags more than 40 years ago has had his conviction quashed in what the lord chief justice described as an exceptional case. The court of [...]

‘File on 4’ podcast about the Kevin Nunes murder case

February 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

BBC Radio 4’s excellent investigative podcast series “File on 4” covered the on-going Kevin Nunes murder case/Staffordshire Police fiasco in a recent [...]

“Kevin Nunes: Police paid witness £15,000 after 76 ignored warnings he was unreliable”

January 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

Further updates in the Kevin Nunes case are brought to us by the Express and Star: The payment was made despite two chief police officers being aware of 76 warnings over [...]

Luke Mitchell launches fresh innocence appeal

January 9, 2018 // 1 Comment

"Jail" by ♪ ~, found on flickr and used under Creative Commons

Luke Mitchell was convicted in 2005 of the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones two years earlier, following one of the longest trials in Scottish history. The crux of the [...]

“I Served 26 Years for Murder Even Though the Killer Confessed”

January 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

“In 1983, Alton Logan was convicted of killing off-duty Cook County corrections officer Lloyd Wickliffe in a Chicago McDonald’s, and sentenced to life in prison. [...]

Levi Bellfield allegedly confessed to the 1996 Russell murders

January 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

Multiple murderer Levi Bellfield, currently serving two whole life terms for the murders of three young women, apparently made a detailed confession that included details not [...]

HuffPost: “2017: A Roller Coaster Ride of a Year in False Confessions”

December 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Huffington Post has captured an excellent timeline of 2017 in terms of miscarriages of justice and false confessions in the US: “In many ways, 2017 has been a [...]

How I help free innocent people from prison – TED Talk

August 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Imagine that you take a 19 hour, very long drive to Disney World with two kids in the back seat. And 15 minutes into this 19 hour trip, the immutable laws of nature dictate [...]