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Fighting Wrongful Convictions

By "eAdvocate"

12-14-2009 National:BU law students focus on freeing the innocentStanley Fisher slides open a cabinet door in his office and reveals a couple of file boxes, generic cardboard containers. Inside lies the fate of several souls, New England prisoners who claim they?ve been falsely incarcerated. This semester Fisher, a School of Law professor of law, and his students have been sifting through the boxes full of court transcripts, police records, and lab reports. They are helping to determine whether the prisoners? cases ought to be accepted by the New England Innocence Project (NEIP), which has freed more than a dozen innocent inmates since 2000. ?I have one case with one box, another with two boxes, and another with five boxes,? says Fisher, a founder of NEIP and now a trustee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).