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PURSUING JUSTICE

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What if you or someone you love were arrested, convicted and incarcerated for a crime but was innocent? What if the lawyer you hired was incompetent and you were out of money and out of options? What if years and decades had gone by and you or the person you cared about was still behind bars? Where would you turn? Wrongful conviction in the United States occurs more often than you might think. Just last year, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, 156 people were released from prison after being proven innocent. Since 1989, 2,479 people were exonerated across the country. Since 19...

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PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE INNOCENCE NETWORK with SETH MILLER PART 1 13.01.2020 26:12

Executive Director of Innocence Project of Florida since 2006. President of the Worldwide Innocence Network. Teaches law at FSU School of Law. Graduate of FSU College of Law. Topic: Overview of IPF. Will discuss details of the case of Dean McKee who Seth represented. Dean spent 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

CONVICTION INTEGRITY REVIEW UNIT with SHELLEY THIBODEAU PART 2 06.01.2020 29:10

CONVICTION INTEGRITY REVIEW UNIT -with SHELLEY THIBODEAU PART 1 29.12.2019 27:38

INTAKE COORDINATOR with ADINA THOMPSON 22.12.2019 28:45

Adina Thompson earned a PhD in criminology, law and society from the University of Florida in 2014. She serves as intake coordinator at Innocence Project of Florida, a non-profit post conviction law firm that works to overturn wrongful convictions, help exonerated people re-enter a changed world and prevent future miscarriages of justice. Dr. Thompson reviews claims of innocence from inmate applic...

EXONEREE -with NATHAN MYERS 17.11.2019 28:20

Nathan was arrested and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit in 1976 when he was 18 years old. He and his uncle, Clifford Williams Jr. were tried and convicted together. In 2019 (after 43 years behind bars) Mr. Myers was freed by a collaboration between the Innocence Project of Florida and the new Conviction Integrity Review Unit. He is now 61 years old.

INNOCENCE PROJECT ATTORNEY with KRISTA DOLAN 10.11.2019 22:35

Krista Dolan is one of two lawyers on staff at Innocence Project of Florida based in Tallahassee. She joined the staff in 2018. She was a public defender in Kentucky for over 5 years. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of North Florida. Her Masters and Law degree are from FSU and her LL.M is from American University Washington College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in NY, FL,...

PURSUING JUSTICE - HARRIET HENDEL PART 2 03.11.2019 25:27

Innocence Projects investigate and litigate pro bono for every client they help. This podcast will explore causes of wrongful conviction, speak to exonerees and their families, learn what it is like to advocate for innocent people, share books written by the exonerees themselves and discuss films about wrongful conviction. Harriet Hendel is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project of Flo...

PURSUING JUSTICE - HARRIET HENDEL PART 1 27.10.2019 23:26

PURSUING JUSTICE - KATE GERMOND 13.10.2019 28:31

Kate Germand joined Centurion Ministries in January of 1987 after reading an article in the NY Times about Jim McCloskey's pioneering work behalf of the wrongly convicted. She thought he might need some help. They met, they thought they could get along and for 30 years worked shoulder to shoulder to free the innocent from prison. Prior to that she was a business woman and community activist in Men...