Falsely Accused

If you are being investigated for a crime you did not commit, you should take immediate action to protect yourself.

For several decades now, we have been seeing crime TV shows depict a scene where detectives “read” a murder scene. They make predictions about how old the killer is, where he lives, what he likes, and how he thinks.

Can you imagine being on death row for a crime you did not commit? What if the reason why you were there was eyewitness misidentification?

False confessions are more common than you think. Consider the case of Jessie Misskelley Jr. Why would he confess to helping two other teenagers torture, mutilate, and kill three innocent 8-year-old boys if he didn’t do it? For something so horrific and so likely to ruin the rest of your life, why would you ever…

Have you heard the podcast, Stuff You Should Know about the so-called “satanic panic” from the 1980s? Before listening to that story, you may be unaware of the far-reaching consequences this cultural phenomenon had until more recently. In a recent article about wrongful convictions, Jason Baldwin and the two other men convicted of murdering three…

If you have been following stories of wrongful convictions being overturned, you will notice a trend in many of these stories. That trend has to do with government misconduct. For many wrongfully convicted people, the original crime must be investigated by someone on the outside in order to try to get a new trial. Often,…