Category: Wrongful conviction

Nov 20, 2019 5:32 AM

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Broward SA Satz opens Conviction Review Unit: ‘Window dressing’ or another path to justice?

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After 44 years in office, and a record pockmarked by several a few of the nation’s most infamous miscarriages of justice, Broward State Attorney Michael J. Satz has established a Conviction Review Unit.
Dec 17, 2015 5:21 AM

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Horrific police frame-ups that Broward State Attorney Michael Satz won’t investigate

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week’s manslaughter indictment of Broward deputy Peter Peraza for the 2013 killing of Jermaine McBean marks a watershed in the tenure of Broward State Attorney Michael Satz – the first time in 36 years that his office is prosecuting a police officer in a fatal police shooting. The indictment also serves as a reminder of unresolved injustices at the hands of other Broward police officers.
Jul 20, 2015 2:08 PM

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Evidence of police dishonesty leads to overturned convictions nationwide

By Nancy West
VTDigger.org
Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just before Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance policy. Or maybe – as Milke has insisted all along – she was just the innocent victim of a corrupt cop with a proven pattern of lying who was out to win a conviction.
Apr 29, 2013 1:54 PM

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Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on Trial

By Raymond Bonner
Special to ProPublica
For 30 years, Ken Anderson was the face of law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas. Earlier this month, he walked into the courthouse again, this time as a defendant for helping to end an innocent man to prison.