Bluhm Blog
"Discussions on clinical education, justice and legal reform."
Author: Steven Drizin is a clinical professor at Northwestern University School of Law, associate director of the law school's Bluhm Legal Clinic and director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
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Recent Posts from Bluhm Blog
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Complete Vindication for False Confessor Jorge Hernandez
This is not Jorge Hernandez. It's Roberto Cruz Recendes, age 40, the man who actually raped and beat a 94 year old woman in Palo Alto, CA in 2002. More than six years after wrongfully…
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DNA Review Clears Deceased Virginia Man Who Falsely Confessed to Brutal Murder and Rape
In Virginia, after Marvin Anderson was exonerated in 2002 by DNA evidence in his case that was uncovered in the files of retired lab analyst Mary Jane Burton, who saved such evidence in all of…
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Robert Gonzales Exonerated: DNA matches to inmate in neighboring county
Robert Gonzales will be officially exonerated and released from prison after spending nearly three years in jail awaiting trial for the rape and murder of Victoria Sandoval in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The DNA profile from…
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False Confession of Mentally Retarded Man Tossed in High Profile Murder-Rape Case
Robert Gonzales Sometime on the evening of October 31, 2005 – Halloween night – 11 year old Victoria Sandoval was found strangled in her room in a small mobile home where she lived with her…
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Connecticut's Central Park Jogger Case
Diane Polan, Defense Attorney vs. New Haven Det. Clarence Willoughby Connecticut’s Central Park Jogger Case Last week, a New Haven, Ct jury acquitted 14 year old Kwame Wells-Jordan on charges connected to the armed robbery…
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Meet Nathaniel Hatchett: The Latest Juvenile False Confessor Exonerated by DNA
Nathaniel Hatchett hugging his brothers after his release from prison after servind 12 years for a rape he did not commit. Nathaniel Hatchett was just 17 years of age when he decided to take a…
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False Confessions and Children
Kudos to Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press for his excellent series on the way in which a West Bloomfield detective used false evidence ploys and other standard psychologically coercive interrogation tactics against a…
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The Case for Barry Beach's Innocence
Was Barry Beach wrongfully convicted of the Murder of Kim Nees in Poplar, Montana more than two decades ago? Beach, who confessed to Lousiana authorities, after he was threatened with the death penalty, recanted his…
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Timothy Masters is Free, Hopefully for Good
Timothy Masters (not a false confession case), a man many believe was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Peggy Hettrick in 1987, walked out of prison for the first time yesterday after serving 10 years.…
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False confession stories on the web: Lebrew Jones and Claude McCollum
Christine Young's story about the wrongful conviction of Lebrew Jones and her role in uncovering the evidence that should, but has not yet, lead to a new trial for Jones -- breaks new ground in…