Monthly Archives: October 2009

I live in Tarrytown now, a free man, and my life has taken turns I never would have dreamed possible. I was wrongfully convicted in 1990 of a murder and rape in Peekskill. DNA taken from semen found in the … Continue reading →

The Bill of Rights was not enacted to protect the citizenry from overzealous defense lawyers. What a concept. The framers of the constitution were seeking to make sure the people had protection from the agents of the government or, for … Continue reading →

A few months ago NY Senator Chuck Schumer visited the Federal Correctional Institute at Otisville NY and used the overcrowding problem that he saw as a “photo op.” It may be clear that Schumer saw the problem but what is … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, October 27, 2009, Reginald Blanton is scheduled to be executed. He was convicted based upon coerced statements subsequently recanted at trial, a trial where the prosecution struck all African-Americans from the jury. No physical evidence connected Blanton to the … Continue reading →

It should be self-evident that there is a strong relationship between false allegations and wrongful convictions. As I have a fine grasp of the obvious I can say, without reservation, that any conviction resting on a false allegation is wrongful. … Continue reading →

I live in a small town in rural Idaho. I am in my early thirties and I see the effects of broken trust by law enforcement in the lives of my generation every day. Whenever a crime occurs, everyone in … Continue reading →

Statistics. I bet you thought it was going to be something else. Well, it could be, but statistics is one of the reasons that prosecutors love plea bargains. District Attorneys, Commonwealth Attorneys or whatever they are called in your jurisdiction … Continue reading →

To those of you who know me it will come as no surprise that I have a talking dog. Spenser, the wonder dog, is a border collie who, in a household of three, is number two on the intelligence scale. … Continue reading →

Texas Governor Rick Perry (motto: “never saw a death sentence I didn’t like”) seems to be pulling out all the stops in his campaign to limit the political damage wrought by revelations that he’s personally culpable in the execution of … Continue reading →