Death Row Exoneree Kirk Bloodsworth Joins Fight To Free Kirstin Lobato
Region: Nevada
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Views: 509An Open Letter to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Asking That He Review Jeffrey Havard Case
Region: Mississippi
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Views: 1377Greed Continues to Fuel Patrick Lumumba's Hatred Toward Amanda Knox
Region: United States
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Views: 1945Support for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Remains Steadfast
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Views: 2288Death Row Inmate Debra Jean Milke Has Convictions Overturned
Region: Arizona
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Views: 2520The Ryan Ferguson Case Highlights The Difficulty Of Correcting A Wrongful Conviction
Region: Missouri
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Views: 7006Jeffrey Havard Faces Execution In Mississippi Despite Proof Of Faulty Evidence
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Views: 2170Raffaele Sollecito’s Book Detailing His Journey With Amanda Knox Hits NY Times Best Seller List
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Views: 3920New Petition Asks US District Judge To Grant Death Row Inmate Jeffrey Havard A New Trial
Region: MississippiJeffrey Havard A new petition was recently started asking United States District Judge Keith Starrett to grant Jeffrey Havard a new trial. Jeffrey was wrongfully convicted in 2002 of murder by shaken baby syndrome... more
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Bruce Fischer is an author and blogger that became involved with the Amanda Knox case in December 2009. He is the founder of Injustice in Perugia (IIP), an independent grassroots organization working to correct the injustice committed against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in Perugia, Italy. The organization grew rapidly after he launched InjusticeinPerugia.org, a comprehensive website detailing the case against Amanda and Raffaele.
Bruce is the author of "Injustice in Perugia: a book detailing the wrongful conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito" and a follow-up book titled "Finding Justice in Perugia."
Bruce's work with IIP opened his eyes to a growing worldwide problem that continues to go mostly unnoticed by anyone not directly affected. Wrongful convictions occur all around the world. We must do more to prevent the unjust imprisonment of innocent people, and in doing so, we must focus on the the larger picture, not just the cases we see highlighted on television. If we choose to turn our backs on this epidemic, we risk creating more victims like Clarence Elkins, Christopher Turner, and Danny Brown. Who are these people? Even though their cases were not sensational enough to get the attention of cable news programs, they were all cases of wrongful conviction, only to be corrected after each had lost many years of their lives. There are hundreds of similar cases that go mostly unnoticed, but are of no less importance than any case that happens to attract the attention of the media.
Now that Amanda and Raffaele are free awaiting appeal, Bruce hopes to bring the same energy and focus that has been seen from IIP to Injustice Anywhere (http://www.injustice-anywhere.org), an organization working to correct wrongful convictions.
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