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Expungement, Wrongful Conviction, CQEs and CAEs in Ohio: Wrongful Conviction / Innocence projects

Ohio Law

Oh. Rev. Code Sec. 2743.48
Wrongful Imprisonment - Civil Action Against the State
After being freed once, Ohio man languishes on death row DeWine won’t request clemency hearing despite DNA claims
Ohio Capital Journal, 10/13/23
Franklin County Prosecutor’s office implementing new program for wrongful convictions
WOSU 1/26/22
Millions paid out to Ohioans who were wrongfully convicted, imprisoned
Ohio Capitol Journal 6/15/21

Law Review Articles

Conviction Integrity Units Revisited
by Barry Sheck. Ohio State J. of Crim. Law 2017
What We Think, What We Know and What We Think We Know About False Convictions
Samuel Gross, U. of Mich. Law Professor,
Ohio State J. of Crim. Law 2017

US Links

After spending 38 years in prison for wrongful murder convictions, man wins $21-million settlement
Arizona S.B. 1469
Allows innocent people behind bars access the same law enforcement databases detectives use to solve cold cases.
Report: Blacks Seven-Times More Likely than Whites to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
Los Angeles Sentinel 7/17/19
Columbus man who spent 21 years in prison in wrongfully convicted Lancaster home invasion awarded $1.3 million
Yahoo 2/8/23
The DFNDER Project to Improve Review of Wrongful Convictions in the United States
A dynamic network of forensic and legal experts aims to improve the criminal justice system by centralizing and analyzing data in e-discovery platform Relativity 10/24/17

DID JAMES PARSONS KILL HIS WIFE? A bloodstain expert’s testimony helped put him in prison. But can forensic science be trusted?
The Atlantic June 2022 by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

An Exoneree Shares His Story Of Wrongful Conviction In 'Anatomy Of Innocence'
NPR 3/30/17
He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway
ProPublica 3/11/25
Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Innocence Project sues museum for access to archives on ‘tragically flawed’ bite-mark evidence
ABA Journal 2/22/19
Judge exonerates Missouri prisoner after 43 years in prison; this law made it possible
ABA Journal 11/24/21
Man serving 400-year prison sentence exonerated after new probe finds wrongful conviction
ABC News 3/14/23
National Registry of Exonerations
The National Registry of Exonerations is a joint project of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. It provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges. In addition to the registry of cases, the site includes graphs and some statistics.
New Haven man exonerated after 30 years has emotional reunion with prosecutor
WTNH.com 6/17/23
Ohio Public Defender's Office - Wrongful Conviction Project
This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
Science Magazine 6/13/19
St. Louis prosecutor agrees with defense on wrongful conviction; but is that enough?
Injustice Watch 7/27/19
THE SNIFF TEST Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking
Science, 10/14/21
Thomas Haynesworth Spent 27 Years in Prison For a Crime He Didn't Commit. Here's Where He Is Now. The exonerated man featured in Netflix's The Innocence Files details his harrowing story and life on the outside.
Esquire 4/18/20
Toledo man exonerated after 25 years: Judge Cook dismisses charges
Wtol.com 11/25/24
The University of California, Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society is now the institutional home for the National Registry of Exonerations
Wrongful Convictions Blog
Mark Godsey, Daniel P. & Judith L. Carmichael Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law; Director, Center for the Global Study of Wrongful Conviction; Director, Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project
Wrongfully Convicted And Jailed 38 Years, Fred Clay Gets $1 Million Payout
NPR 1/31/19

US Code

26 U.S. Code § 139F
Certain amounts received by wrongfully incarcerated individuals are excluded from federal taxable income

Other Countries

Other Countries

Criminal Cases Review Commission
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the public body with statutory responsibility for investigating alleged miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
There is no such body in the US.

He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
Article by Robert Worth in The Atlantic, Dec. 2024

MAKING SENSE OF FORENSIC GENETICS : What can DNA tell you about a crime?
European Forensic Genetics Network of Excellence 2017