It could very well start a chain reaction in which the system as a whole moves toward a revamped commitment to anti-wrongful convictions, justice, and being smart on crime.
Hoping to reduce wrongful convictions, Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake of the North Carolina Supreme Court has appointed a commission to review how innocent people are convicted and how to free them when it happens.
"The government says daily it wants to prevent wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice from happening, but everyone knows that this is a miscarriage of justice".
Its fierce opposition to clearing Garry's name illustrates a difficulty inherent in seeking justice for wrongful convictions: the offices that seek convictions are, years later, the same ones tasked with fairly assessing whether they might have been wrong.
London's Young Vic theatre is currently host to the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys, where the story of a gross miscarriage of justice – the wrongful imprisonment of nine black men and boys for rape in Alabama in 1931 – is heightened by being told as a musical, and a minstrel show at that.
Aborn's progressive advocacy extends to other criminal justice issues beyond wrongful convictions, and that to me speaks to his authenticity on wrongful convictions as well as his being smart on crime.
It is perhaps not a coincidence that May's fiction often involves wrongful accusations being cleared, and justice prevailing.
The alternative is the excessive caseloads and resulting assembly-line justice and the wrongful convictions that are so pervasive in many states.
Today Theresa May, the Home Secretary, announced plans for a judge-led public inquiry to examine the activities of undercover police officers amid fears that malpractice could have led to wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice spanning decades.
