ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION February 29, 2016 Ga. man serves life despite DNA questions Supporters say the wrong man is doing time for 1998 crime. By Brad Schrade [email protected] and Jodie Fleischer Channel 2 Action News [Photo at end of story. To view […]
From Aimee Maxwell I want to interrupt my previously scheduled blog post about the Googe exoneration to discuss the report released last week by the National Registry of Exonerations. Read the entire report here. “Exonerations in 2015” provides incredible information. Last year there were 149 exoneration, a record number. Some very interesting observations: No-Crime Cases: A […]
From Aimee Maxwell In my last blog entry I talked about CODIS hits. Quick reminder – CODIS hits are cases were DNA evidence from a crime scene matches someone in the DNA database (usually someone in prison). As part of the NIJ grant, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation generated a comprehensive report of all CODIS […]
From Aimee Maxwell, GIP Executive Director First, sorry I’ve been MIA. Our office renovation is almost complete plus I received the applications for our summer program (107!) last week. Takes quite a while to read all those resumes! One more thing before I get to CODIS. I want to thank everyone who responded to the AJC article by […]
Aimee Maxwell, Executive Director No, that’s not really how we created our groundbreaking partnership with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia (PAC). In early 2012, I approached GBI and PAC with the idea of applying for a two-year federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of […]
From Aimee Maxwell, Executive Director Last Thursday I was driving to work, looking forward to a fantastic day. That afternoon was our Intern Orientation – I just love talking about our work with our great new interns. I was almost to work when I got a call from a GIP supporter who is now a […]
GIP has been working on Paul Tyner since 2003. In fact, he is case number 183. During our investigation we realized that he had been waiting for an appeal since 1981!! And this is not the only time we’ve discovered a person waiting decades for his appeal. It’s always shocking. We are so pleased that […]
Something to Celebrate! GIP Exonerates Another Georgia Man Through a first-in-the-nation initiative launched by the Georgia Innocence Project, we have a new exoneration: Michael Googe of Brunswick, GA is innocent of the 2007 burglary of a convenience store. Not only that, but our initiative also revealed the true perpetrator of the crime. Here’s how it happened. CODIS is the acronym […]
Dear Friend of the Georgia Innocence Project: TWENTY-SEVEN years after William Whitsett was arrested for the rape and murder of Evelyn Jones in Atlanta, Georgia, physical evidence collected at the crime scene is finally being tested at the state crime lab. It is incredibly unlikely that William, who has an 8th grade education, would have […]
For the past 9 years, GIP has struggled to bring real criminal justice reform to Georgia. We are now one step closer. Georgia is the 12th state to embrace major eyewitness evidence reform. Late last night, on the last day of the legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly passed a bill requiring police […]