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This entry is by request! (Suggestion, anyway,) and I hope that it meets needs/satisfies requirements, I believe it IS informative!

well written, and lots of usefull details. how about adding something about all rule-based systems getting it wrong sometimes.

also are there any similar projects in other parts of the world.
you might also want to mention the recent set of cases in britain where bad fingerprint id's resulted in persecution by the police and the crown prosecution service.

perhaps you might want to mention something about the way that someone who is guilty and owns up gets treated much better than someone who has maintained their innocense all through their case and incarceration?

I'd like to add these things, but i don't have sufficient info... Can anyone help? Email, [email protected] or [email protected]

Della, I think this article is a good start but needs a bit more work. The best way to flesh it out is to make up a few headings:

What is the innocence project?

What's wrong with the system at present?

- Juries ignoring evidence
- Lack of modern methods
-Misidentification

Has the Innocence Project been successful?

Then write a reasonable amount in each of these sections. For example, in the first section, write who set up the Innocence project and what it hopes to achieve. You never actually state the purpose.

Della, I've just sent an e-mail to your hotmail address with a link to the Death Penalty Information Center* website. There are some fascinating stories and statistics on there about people in the US who've been convicted of murder and then released from prison after being found to be innocent. Good luck with this Entry!

(* Moderators - this is a title and not a URL. Thank you. }

Thanks, Ormondroyd, I received yr email and sent a reply, which I hope got to you - I'll check out the site you mention as soon as I can! All info very welcome! Della (aka boring Debbie)

Hey, Della! How's this entry going? Are changes still in progress?


Mikey

Sorry, I confess to getting side-tracked - I'll be getting on to it a.s.a.p., after school hols, end - they're back to school Monday... yay!!! (Love them I do, but kids take time..)

Anything yet? Tell us when you revise it


Dancer

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Congratulations!

Congradulations,

Hope to see you more around here and thanks
to the people who helped on the thread.


Dancer

Very well done, Della! It's great to see this going into the Edited Guide!

Yee-hah!!! Thanks Ormondroyd and others. I am wrapt!

if you go to google and search for the innocence project, then cardozo law's page comes near the top.

you might want to add the link.