The law is embedded in our society, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Join Steve Becker, retired State District Court Judge, and his daughter Beth White, A Department of Corrections parole officer, as they explore what went wrong in the crimi
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Works CitedHenneberger, Melinda. “‘Shaken Baby' Murder Charges Finally Dismissed. But Kansas Won't Admit He's Innocent .” Yahoo, 18 July 2023, www.yahoo.com/news/shaken-baby-murder-charges-finally-100700398.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGkZAxhcRWCS5wSWN4F8UDikPr2qr8oN-IRR05SBlJZab1jdSVWpDb74XgL2Ej4GcERtMoXUgZkWLm1G8hz7AA7mrTSkfq-tdSe1HExlKdEy1fihcG1d-V7zu-q-bDi66ez0UFEUcw78xGvaXi_AU_r7uEwzFmyMjN6U57wq321T. Accessed 14 Mar. 2024.Otterbourg, Ken. “Christopher Lyman - National Registry of Exonerations.” Www.law.umich.edu, 25 Aug. 2023, www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6637. Accessed 14 Mar. 2024.
Steve and Sarah are joined by special guests Sarah Swain and Brian Betts
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Rosa Jimenez Works CitedFazio, Marie. “‘Likely Innocent': Judge Frees Woman Jailed 15 Years in Child's Death.” The New YorkTimes, 29 Jan. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/rosa-jimenez-released.html?msclkid=3c5c8927a91411eca29d2a4e703f5bf0. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022.Hall 17, Michael. “After Eighteen Years behind Bars for a Crime She Didn't Commit, Rosa Jimenez IsFinally Free.” Texas Monthly, 30 Jan. 2021, www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/after-eighteen-years-prison-for-crime-she-did-not-commit-rosa-jimenez-finally-free/?msclkid=3c5ddb74a91411eca16901e6742645a2. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022.Selby, Daniele. “A Judge Overturned Her Conviction on Her Last Birthday, but She's Still in Prison aYear Later.” Innocence Project, 28 Oct. 2020, innocenceproject.org/rosa-jimenez-birthday-texas-wrongful-conviction/?msclkid=3c5d1106a91411eca0fdc9fd56a70376. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022.—. “She Wanted to Be a Mom. Wrongful Conviction Shattered Her Dream.” Innocence Project, 26 Mar.2021, innocenceproject.org/rosa-jimenez-motherhood-wrongful-conviction/?fbclid=IwAR2yPkja9j51964fzYeIWz1iMiBcSbgcKqGElH7geURnraePKE6cDHcqa0Q. Accessed21 Mar. 2022.
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An Interview with Jim McCloskey, the author of “When Truth Is All You Have”https://www.amazon.com/When-Truth-All-You-Have/dp/0385545037https://centurion.org/
An Interview with Jim McCloskey, the author of “When Truth Is All You Have”https://www.amazon.com/When-Truth-All-You-Have/dp/0385545037https://centurion.org/
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Groveland Four Works CitedCNN, Sara Weisfeldt. “4 Black Men Exonerated More than 70 Years after Being Wrongly Accused of Raping a White Teen Girl.” CNN, 23 Nov. 2021, www.cnn.com/2021/11/22/us/groveland-four-exonerated-florida/index.html.Hudak, Stephen. “Groveland Four Accuser Norma Padgett Speaks Publicly for the First Time since 1952.” Orlandosentinel.com, 11 Jan. 2019, www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-ne-groveland-four-norma-padgett-testimony-20190111-story.html. Accessed 4 Jan. 2022.Reilly, Patrick. “‘Groveland Four' Exonerated 72 Years after They Were Falsely Accused of Rape.” New York Post, 23 Nov. 2021, nypost.com/2021/11/22/groveland-four-exonerated-72-years-after-they-were-falsely-accused-of-rape/. Accessed 4 Jan. 2022.Salkowski, Keith. “The Groveland Four.” Www.pbs.org, 25 June 2018, www.pbs.org/video/the-groveland-four-uid8r2/.
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Steve shares about wrongful convictions in the news and Beth shares the story of Curtis McCartyWorks CitedAllen, John. “Former Death Row Inmate Drawn to Faith by Catholic Activism.” National CatholicReporter, 27 Nov. 2012, www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/former-death-row-inmate-drawn-faith-catholic-activism. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.Branstetter, Ziva. “‘Cowboy' Bob Macy Called #2 ‘Deadliest' Prosecutor.” The Frontier, 3 July 2016,www.readfrontier.org/stories/cowboy-bob-macy-called-2-deadliest-prosecutor/. Accessed 6 Dec.2021.“Curtis McCarty.” Innocence Project, innocenceproject.org/cases/906/. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.“Curtis McCarty.” Www.youtube.com, 23 Aug. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wo2_R2QVA4.Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.“Curtis McCarty – Convicting the Innocent – DNA Exonerations Database.” Convicting the Innocent,convictingtheinnocent.com/exoneree/curtis-mccarty/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.“Curtis McCarty – Convicting the Innocent – DNA Exonerations Database.” Convicting the Innocent,convictingtheinnocent.com/exoneree/curtis-mccarty/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.“Curtis McCarty – National Registry of Exonerations.” Umich.edu, 2019,www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3418. Accessed 7 Dec.2021.“Curtis McCarty to Speak at Donnelly College!” Ksabolition.org, 14 Apr. 2014,ksabolition.org/news/curtis-mccarty-to-speak-at-donnelly-college. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.Elpers, Scott. “Innocent Man Shares Story of 16 Years on Death Row.” DerbyInformer.com, 21 Jan.2015, www.derbyinformer.com/news/innocent-man-shares-story-of-16-years-on-death-row/article_1fb124ae-a0f3-11e4-9961-6744e9df7ea9.html. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.McPadden, Mike. “The Questionable Case against Julius Jones: Is the Wrong Man on Death Row?”Investigation Discovery, 11 July 2018, www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/the-questionable-case-against-julius-jones-is-the-wrong-man-on-death-row. Accessed 6 Dec. 2021.“Ok Offender Search.” Okoffender.doc.ok.gov, okoffender.doc.ok.gov/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.Prickett, Austin. “Exonerated Death Row Inmate Back in Custody, Involved in Human TraffickingInvestigation.” KTUL, 23 Apr. 2018, ktul.com/news/local/exonerated-death-row-inmate-back-in-custody-involved-in-human-trafficking-investigation. Accessed 7 Dec. 2021.
Steve shares briefly about Amanda Knox, and Beth shares the story of Eddie James LoweryWorks Cited“Anatomy of False Confessions, Redux | Prison Legal News.” Www.prisonlegalnews.org, 15 Dec. 2011, www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/dec/15/anatomy-of-false-confessions-redux/. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.“Eddie Lowery – National Registry of Exonerations.” Www.law.umich.edu, www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3394. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.Hittle, Shaun. “Wrongfully Convicted: He Spent 10 Years in Prison for a Rape He Didn't Commit; Now He's Getting $7.5M.” LJWorld.com, 11 Feb. 2010, www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/feb/11/10-years-later-eddie-lowerys-name-clear-and-man-wh/.MSNBCW. “The Disturbing Case of Eddy Lowery : MSNBCW : December 15, 2013 3:00am-4:01am PST.” Internet Archive, 15 Dec. 2013, archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20131215_110000_The_Disturbing_Case_Of_Eddy_Lowery. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.“‘The Disturbing Case of Eddie Lowery' Documentary to Air in December.” Ksabolition.org, ksabolition.org/updates/the-disturbing-case-of-eddie-lowery. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.Unknown. “DNA Technology and Our Criminal Justice System: Eddie Lowery.” DNA Technology and Our Criminal Justice System, 14 Mar. 2012, dna-criminal-justice.blogspot.com/2012/03/in-1981-eddie-lowery-was-serving-our.html. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.“Voices of Innocence: Eddie Lowery.” Ksabolition.org, ksabolition.org/ksvoices/voices-of-innocence-eddie-lowery. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.
October 2nd is Wrongful Conviction Day! Join Steve and Beth as they Celebrate the nearly3000 exonerations as they tell the story of the first exoneration brought about by DNA evidence.
Jimmie Gardner was a talented up and coming baseball player until he was convicted of a crime he did not commit. 27 years later he was released. What went wrong in the criminal justice system that took 27 years from Jimmie Gardner?Works Cited“About Jimmie.” J.C. Gardner Speaks, www.jcgardnerspeaks.com/about/. Accessed 28 July 2021.“‘In the Beginning I Had Rage': Man Wrongly Convicted Released from Prison after Nearly 3 Decades.” 11Alive.com, www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-reveal/conviction-integrity-unit-created-in-georgia/85-aaf00d74-42d8-412e-a5cc-592702473f8f?fbclid=IwAR3fyhQWpX9iDBqH0rJxM-9_b-AFwCNStcTz06n0dloq2dUCm4jcBwL8oEk. Accessed 28 July 2021.“Videos.” FOX 5 Atlanta, www.fox5atlanta.com/video/641908. Accessed 28 July 2021.
The law is embedded in our society, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Join Steve Becker, retired State District Court Judge, and his daughter Beth White, A Department of Corrections parole officer, as they explore what went wrong in the criminal justice system.