The longest-serving wrongfully convicted man in California was freed Monday. For the first time since 1978, Michael Hanline is not a prisoner. Arrested for the death of his friend J.T. McGarry and convicted in 1980, Hanline spent more than 35 years behind bars. His wife, Sandee, worked with the Innocence Project for more than 15 years to secure his release. Testimony uncovered in sealed police reports cast doubts on the state’s case, and DNA testing showed Hanline’s did not match the available evidence. “We were no longer comfortable with the conviction,” said Michael Lief, the senior deputy district attorney of Ventura County. “I feel like I’m in front of a missile and things are just flying by,” said Hanline upon release. “It’s incredible.” The state has until May 29 to decide if it will retry Hanline.
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Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, July 22, 2013
Justice Failed
Justice failed Trayvon Martin the night he was killed. We should be appalled and outraged, but perhaps not surprised, that it failed him again Saturday night, with a verdict setting his killer free.
Our society considers young black men to be dangerous, interchangeable, expendable, guilty until proven innocent. This is the conversation about race that we desperately need to have — but probably, as in the past, will try our best to avoid.
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Our society considers young black men to be dangerous, interchangeable, expendable, guilty until proven innocent. This is the conversation about race that we desperately need to have — but probably, as in the past, will try our best to avoid.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
VA Man Exonerated After 27 Years
Or one of the reasons I'm opposed to capital punishment.
A Virginia court decided that Thomas Haynesworth had been mistakenly imprisoned for 27 years for rapes he did not commit. Haynesworth was arrested on his way to the grocery store when a woman who had been raped days before identified him as her attacker. He was 18 at the time. Haynesworth's break came when authorities tested semen collected at one of the 1984 rapes, and the DNA evidence cleared him and pointed to another man who had already been convicted of rape. “I am very happy,” said Haynesworth. “Me and my family can finally put this behind us, and I can go on with my life. And I can finally vote.”
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A Virginia court decided that Thomas Haynesworth had been mistakenly imprisoned for 27 years for rapes he did not commit. Haynesworth was arrested on his way to the grocery store when a woman who had been raped days before identified him as her attacker. He was 18 at the time. Haynesworth's break came when authorities tested semen collected at one of the 1984 rapes, and the DNA evidence cleared him and pointed to another man who had already been convicted of rape. “I am very happy,” said Haynesworth. “Me and my family can finally put this behind us, and I can go on with my life. And I can finally vote.”
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Federal court rules human genes can be patented
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a 2 to 1 decision that human genes can be patented because the DNA extracted from cells is not a product of nature.
The court held that Myriad Genetics can patent two human genes used to predict the risk of breast and ovarian cancer in women, overturning a previous decision by a federal district court in March 2010. But the court ruled that the method used to determine a patient's risk of cancer was not patentable.
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The court held that Myriad Genetics can patent two human genes used to predict the risk of breast and ovarian cancer in women, overturning a previous decision by a federal district court in March 2010. But the court ruled that the method used to determine a patient's risk of cancer was not patentable.
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