Justice Diaz comments on MIP, death penalty

Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Diaz departs the bench with a stand against the death penalty, citing exonerations by the Mississippi Innocence Project as a major factor in his perspective.


(Via Folo and The Agitator)

Grisham, Maw raise awareness in New Orleans

The advocates, both close associates of the Mississippi Innocence Project, attended a dinner in New Orleans celebrating the release of Louisiana exonerees.

Additional NOLA media coverage

Clarion-Ledger urges death-investigation reform

Link here.

Oddly enough, the C-L has failed to mention Kennedy Brewer's recent lawsuit against the experts whose testimony originally placed him in prison.

Miss. exoneree seeks damages from prosecution

Kennedy Brewer files again Drs. Hayne and West, with help of Innocence Project friend Rob McDuff

State task force focuses on DNA evidence preservation

MIP clients may help bring about major improvement to judicial system

Additional reporting from North Mississippi

Concerns with Hayne deepen

Backlog of cases more serious even than originally imagined

National spotlight focuses on Mississippi changes

Story from L.A. Times

Mississippi takes "huge first steps"

Still has long way to go with improvements to the system

Three Days From Freedom

In 18 years, three days were easy for Levon Brooks

ABA article on MIP efforts with West

The American Bar Association Journal picks up MIP's investigation of controversial forensic dentist

Wrongfully imprisoned Mississippian freed after nearly two decades

Levon Brooks released in Noxubee County

A Scary Mirror for Us All

MIP doing the unprecedented in Mississippi, says the Vicksburg Post

A letter to Public Safety Commissioner Charlie Williams

Full text from the national Innocence Project

MIP seeks legislative reform study of DNA testing

Special to the Clarion-Ledger by director Tucker Carrington

More Than A Steak Dinner

The New York Times editorial on exonerations

"These Are Not Fair Trials"

The Jackson Free Press talks with John Grisham