Advanced Criminal Law: Convicting the Innocent
Professor James R. Elkins College of Law
West Virginia University|Fall|2016|

   

 

Bad Lawyering

Bad Lawyering
[Innocence Project]

Bad Lawyering
[Innocence Project--New Orleans][featuring profiles of Louisiana and Mississippi exonerees convicted, at least in part, by bad lawyering]

Bad Lawyering: How Defense Attorneys Help Convict the Innocent
[Shelia Martin Berry, Justice Denied]

Case Studies

Jarrett Adams

The Wrongful Conviction of Jarrett Adams
[9:08 mins.] [false accusation of rape; 8 years in prison before he was exonerated] [Wisconsin Innocence Project] [ineffective assistance of counsel]

Maurice Caldwell

Wrongfully Incarcerated for 20 years
[4:57 mins.] [Northern California Innocence Project] [ineffective assistance of counsel]

Joe D'Ambrosio

Joe D'Ambrosio: Life After Death Row
[5:32 mins.] [OneForTen Films] [narrated by Damien Echols] [prosecutorial misconduct; failure to disclose exculpatory material in police, prosecutor, and cornor's files] [police misconduct] [ineffective assistance of counsel]

CNN
[1:05 mins.]

Joe D'Ambrosio exonerated from death row
[1:29 mins.]

Priest helped free death row inmate
[4:20 mins.]

The Death Penalty in our Penal System
[48:25 mins.] [Fr. Neil Kookoothe and Joe D'Ambrosio] [D'Ambrosio's comments begin at 4:15 mins.]

Gary Drinkard

Gary Drinkard: Poor Public Defense Counsel
[5:49 mins.] [OneForTen Films] [ineffective assistance of counsel; prosecutorial misconduct]

Witness to Innocence
[2:57 mins.]

Gary Drinkard, North Carolina, June 2010
[9:56 mins.]

Gary Drinkard: Poor Public Defense Counsel
[5:49 mins.] [OneForTen Films] [ineffective assistance of counsel; prosecutorial misconduct]

Rafael Madrigal, Jr.

ABC 7 Report
[2:14 mins.] [improper eyewitness identification; ineffective assistance of counsel]

FOX 11 Talks to Innocence Project Staff at Rafael Madrigal Jr.'s Release
[2:11 mins.]

Johnnie Lee Savory

Coerced into a False Confession
[7:33 mins.] Pt2 [5:32 mins.] Pt3 [4:32 mins.] [ineffective assistance of counsel]

Exonerate Johnnie Lee Savory
[9:36 mins.]

Johnnie Lee Savory: Innocent Man
[6:00 mins.]

Johnnie Lee Savory & Robert Wilson
[5:54 mins.]

Get busy living, or get busy dying
[2:34 mins.]

The Story of Johnnie Lee Savory
[21:21 mins.] [Steve Drizin telling the Savory story; Drizin is the director of Northwestern University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Conviction and helped win Savory's parole.]

Supporters Demand DNA Tests to Exonerate Johnnie Lee Savory
[29:23 mins.]


 

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