Walking Free, From North Carolina to Washington

[Katia Rabacchi]

Innocent people across the country continue gaining their freedom and starting
down the long road to rebuild lives shattered by wrongful convictions.

In the last two weeks, two men represented by Innocence Network organizations were finally cleared after years of fighting to overturn their wrongful convictions.

Ted Bradford
was acquitted in Washington State and fully cleared of a rape DNA shows
he didn’t commit. The Innocence Project Northwest worked on Bradford’s
case since 2001, and obtained DNA testing on his behalf indicating that
another man had committed the rape for which Bradford was convicted in
1996. Prosecutors refused to drop the charges and proceeded to retry
him. He was acquitted last week by a jury.

Gregory Taylor
was freed from prison last week in North Carolina after serving 17
years for a murder that evidence now shows he didn’t commit. He was
represented by attorneys at the North Carolina Center on Actual
Innocence, and was the first person cleared through the procedure of
the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission.

"North Carolina’s commission is an important model for the adjudication of
innocence claims," Innocence Project Co-Director Barry C. Scheck told the New York Times.
"In the American court system, there are normally procedural bars that
get in the way of litigating whether someone is innocent or not."


source: The Innocence Project

[LaFaith Networks]

I think we need to shine more insight on this type of topic, (wrongful convictions) because there are many out there backed up in the closet...

[Katia Rabacchi]

I think that wrongful convictions need to be exposed as much as possible because only through information, people are able to know what really happens behind the "doors" of the justice system...