WGBH Boston Public Radio Hallmarks Of Innocence: The Scope Of Wrongful Convictions WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu talks with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the scope of wrongful convictions.
WGBH The wrongful conviction of Victor Rosario WGBH’s Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed about Victor Rosario, a Lowell man who spent 32 years in prison for an arson that caused eight deaths, including five children. In May, the Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower court decision that granted him a new trial, and […]
WGBH The wrongful conviction of Frederick Clay Last week, Frederick Clay was freed after 38 years in prison for a Roslindale murder that the evidence suggests he did not commit. WGBH’s Morning Edition anchor Joe Mathieu spoke with WGBH News’ legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed about the Clay case and how it compares with other documented wrongful convictions.
A quarter century of righting wrongful convictions Twenty-five years ago today, an Illinois court overturned Gary Dotson’s conviction for rape and aggravated kidnapping after DNA tests performed on the biological evidence in the original rape kit excluded him as the perpetrator. This was the first exoneration of an innocent prisoner in this country based on post-conviction DNA testing, and it was not […]
WNYC Radio Wrongful Conviction AUDIO: Radio producer Helen Borten and Daniel Medwed, law professor at Northeastern University and author of Prosecution Compex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent, discuss a wrongful conviction murder case that raises hot-button issues: domestic terrorism, racial prejudice—and the techniques of prosecutors that have led to a shocking number of wrongful […]
WCVB TV National investigation shows Massachusetts lags in compensation for wrongfully convicted If this scenario had played out in various states across the country, Weichel could’ve been eligible to receive more money. 5 Investigates teamed up with Northeastern University’s School of Journalism for a national review of wrongful conviction compensation laws.
Ch 5 Cleveland After 20 years in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit, his conviction was overturned, but he’s not free yet “So I think part of the explanation is that the prosecution probably honestly believes he’s guilty and they’re wedded to that belief,” explained Daniel Medwed, an expert on wrongful convictions and a professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
Fact check: Jacob Blake faces charges in May assault case, but he has no gun convictions Such allegations are a common and patently unfair response to tragic events that need to be corrected, said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law.
The Associated Press Pardon sought for Black man executed in 1908 in Illinois The Center on Wrongful Convictions and Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project in Boston filed a petition for executive clemency this month. They are to go before the review board from next month.
A&E The Death of Conrad Roy: Michelle Carter’s ‘Virtual Presence’ and ‘Failure to Act’ in Texting Case Northeastern University criminal law professor Daniel S. Medwed tells A&E True Crime that the verdict was flawed, but not for First Amendment reasons. Medwed, a founding member of the board of the Innocence Network that works to overturn wrongful convictions, recalls his first reaction was that prosecutors were “over-reaching.” “This is not manslaughter, it’s basically […]
WGBH Boston Public Radio Hallmarks Of Innocence: Improving The Criminal Justice System In the final part of our Hallmarks of Innocence series, WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu talks with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the larger systemic changes that could help reduce wrongful convictions. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.
WGBH Boston Public Radio Hallmarks of Innocence: Government Informants WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about how the information government informants give can occasionally lead to wrongful convictions.