The Innocence Project and Wrongful Convictions in Mississippi in which you discuss actual cases of wrongfully convicted individuals and their subsequent exoneration..
You should reveal the causes and reasons for wrongful convictions and discuss the process by which justice is ultimately served. You’ll find helpful research information. Place emphasis upon wrongful convictions based upon misidentification and false confessions in specific Mississippi cases and how scientific evidence can and has helped right past wrongs. What impact has organizations such as the Innocence Project, the Mississippi Innocence Project and the National Registry of Exonerations had on helping investigate, exonerate and publicize these issues? The Justice Project Eyewitness Identification A Policy Review. Pdf Police Lineups: Making Eyewitness Identification More Reliable by Beth Schster Death Penalty Information Center, Studies: Eyewitness Identification Comes Under Supreme Court and Scientific Scrutiny The Certainty of Memory Has Its Day in Court by Laura Biel November 28, 2011 New York Times Is Eyewitness Testimony Inherently Unreliable? By Aileen P. Clare -May 28, 2012 Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Eyewitness Identification Eyewitness Identification How Reliable is it? Wrongful Convictions Why Innocent Men Make False Confessions, Time Magazine False Confessions Compiled by Amelia Hritz, Michael Blau, and Sara Tomezsko Coerced to Confess: The Psychology of False Confessions, October 21, 2014 by Evan Nestrerak False Confessions: Causes, Consequences, and Implication Richard A. Leo, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online September 2009, 37 (3) 3320343 https://issuemagazine.com/levon-and-kennedy-mississippi-innocence-project/#/ (Links to an external site.) Levon and Kennedy: Mississippi Innocence Project https://www.npr.org/2011/06/01/133401716/flawed-autopsies-send-two-innocent-men-to-jail (Links to an external site.) Flawed Autopsies Send Two Innocent Men to Jail https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17exonerate.html (Links to an external site.) 30 Years Later, Freedom in a Case with Tragedy for all Involved http://www.wdam.com/story/32588982/forrest-county-settles-with-families-of-wrongfully-convicted-men/ (Links to an external site.) Forrest County Settles with Families of Wrongfully Convicted Men https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/04/19/state-pay-thousands-wrongfully-convicted/26040949/ (Links to an external site.) State to pay thousands to wrongfully convicted http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2008/oct/01/dna-exonerates-sunflower-county-man-after-16-years/ (Links to an external site.) DNA Exonerates Sunflower County Man after 16 Years https://www.innocenceproject.org/mississippi-man-to-get-new-hearing-based-on-dna-results/ (Links to an external site.) Mississippi Man to get New Hearing Based on DNA Results http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2006/jul/26/deepest-midnight-cedric-willis-and-the-failure-of/ (Links to an external site.) Deepest Midnight: Cedric Willis and the Failure of Mississippi Justice https://ip-no.org/what-we-do/free-innocent-prisoners/client-profiles/cedric-willis/ (Links to an external site.) Cedric Willis http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/24/city-settles-with-cedric-willis/ (Links to an external site.) City Settles with Cedric Willis https://ip-no.org/what-we-do/free-innocent-prisoners/client-profiles/jimmie-bass/ (Links to an external site.) Jimmie Bass https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2016/09/24/life-after-freedom-wrongly-convicted/90516810/ (Links to an external site.) Life After Freedom for the Wrongfully Convicted https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3015 (Links to an external site.) Jimmie Bass https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3509 (Links to an external site.) Matthew Norwood https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/leigh-stubbs-michael-west-forensics-discredited-testimony_n_922219.html (Links to an external site.) Leigh Stubbs, Mississippi Woman Serving 44 year Sentence Despite Discredited Testimony https://25years.innocenceproject.org/ (Links to an external site.) Innocence Project 25 Year Anniversary http://innocenceproject.olemiss.edu/ (Links to an external site.) The Mississippi Innocence Project https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx (Links to an external site.) The National Registry of Exonerations