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In Memory of Calvin C. Johnson Jr. It is with both deep sadness and many warm memories that we share ...
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Joey Watkins Granted Bond Joey Watkins embraces his parents immediately after being released from Floyd County Jail We wanted to ...
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On December 20th, the Supreme Court of Georgia unanimously affirmed Habeas relief for Joey Watkins. This favorable opinion comes after ...
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GA Supreme Court Unanimously Affirms Habeas Relief For Joey Watkins Convicted of murder in Floyd County in 2001, Watkins has ...
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Lee Clark (right) embraces family and friends immediately after his release from Floyd County Jail. Lee Clark Exonerated After More ...
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“Bonded by Innocence, Together in Freedom” Exhibition The exhibition will be housed in the lobby of the Jimmy Carter Presidential ...
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In Memory of Page Pate The Georgia Innocence Project family is heartbroken at the passing of our dear friend, colleague, ...
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We now have a date set for oral arguments in Joey Watkins’ case. On October 4th, 2022, Joey’s lawyers from ...
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January 2023 On January 3rd, Floyd County Superior Court Judge Bryan Johnson ruled in favor of Joey Watkins and granted ...
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The 50 for 50 Freedom Run Columbus woman runs 50 miles on her 50th Birthday to raise money for GIP ...
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Fourth of July This July 4th, we echo the sentiments of the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Editorial Board from two days ...
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Juneteenth 2022 This week we reflect on and celebrate the resilience and determination of Black Americans as the GIP office ...
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Georgia Supreme Court Adopts Rule to Hold Prosecutors Accountable for Misconduct “The primary duty of the prosecutor is to seek ...
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Georgia Attorney General’s Office Files Appeal in Joey Watkins Case Yesterday we received the disappointing news that the Georgia Attorney ...
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April 25th is National DNA Day Today is National DNA Day, which commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project ...
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I am BEYOND thrilled to share with you that after years of litigation and a 3-day hearing in February/March, Walker ...
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That’s a Wrap on Georgia’s 2022 Legislative Session Thanks to the generous support of people like you, Georgia Innocence Project ...
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It’s Time for Georgia to Pass a Law to Compensate the Wrongfully Convicted Many people think that the nightmare of ...
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Beneath the Statistics: The Structural and Systemic Causes of Our Wrongful Conviction Problem The statistics related to wrongful convictions, and ...
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Devonia Inman Exonerated After 23 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment Twenty three years after he was imprisoned for a crime he ...
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Court Grants Devonia Inman’s Habeas Corpus Petition! Great News! A Chattooga County Superior Court Judge has granted Devonia Inman’s habeas ...
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Professor LaJuana Davis and GIP Attorney Meagan Hurley GIP Closes Out 2-Year Alabama Fellowship We recently had a big celebration ...
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Kerry Robinson was exonerated in January 2020 Wrongful Conviction Factors A wrongful conviction is the conviction of an innocent person ...
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(Image: AP Photo/Savannah Morning News) The Death Penalty: Unfixable, Unjustly Applied, and Regularly Used as a Tool to Convict the ...
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Meet the GIP Legal Team Our staff is at the heart of what we do. Our ability to help wrongly ...
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Justice Requires Meaningful Oversight and Accountability of Prosecutors Last week, former District Attorney Jackie Johnson was criminally indicted on charges ...
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Ron Jacobsen Officially Exonerated After 30 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment We are thrilled to announce that this week Ron Jacobsen ...
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Dennis Perry Exonerated After 20 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment After more than 20 years behind bars, and just over one ...
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Why is it so hard to right a wrong in Georgia? “Justice, not victory, is our chief goal.” So say ...
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First Father’s Day (Again) Kerry Robinson (right) and his son KyeSean walk side by side on the prison lawn, moments ...
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Terry upon walking out of prison after nearly 40 years of wrongful imprisonment. After nearly 40 years in prison for ...
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Press Release – July 17, 2020 JUDGE ORDERS NEW TRIAL AFTER TWENTY YEARS FOR MAN CONVICTED IN 1985 DOUBLE MURDER ...
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We Need Your Voice: Georgia Moves to Slash Public Defender’s Appellate Division Georgians are constitutionally entitled to effective counsel in ...
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Juneteenth 2020: We Have Work to Do (Credit: Legal Defense Fund on Twitter) Almost one hundred years after bombs burst ...
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GIP Statement on the Killing of George Floyd Credit: CC George Livingston/Flickr. As we work to free Georgia’s wrongfully convicted, ...
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Solidarity With Ahmaud Arbery On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old, unarmed Black man, was shot and killed in ...
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World DNA Day Help Solve Crimes and Free Georgia’s Imprisoned Innocent Today is World DNA Day. 100% of any donation ...
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On March 13th, as Georgia was undertaking dramatic steps to stem the tide of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Georgia ...
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Georgia Supreme Court Rules in Favor of GIP Client Johnny Lee Gates! Johnny Lee Gates has spent 43 years imprisoned ...
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Georgia Supreme Court Rules in Favor of GIP Client Joey Watkins! Joey Watkins was convicted in 2001 of a murder ...
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GIP Client Kerry Robinson Exonerated After Nearly 18 Years in Prison Kerry Robinson Walks Out of Prison a Free Man ...
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Thanks for Coach Pierce and the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks! Atlanta Hawks Head Coach Lloyd Pierce is passionate about correcting and ...
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TODAY, Wednesday, October 2nd, is Wrongful Conviction Day – the annual international observance dedicated to ending wrongful convictions and highlighting ...
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We have more EXCITING NEWS in the Devonia Inman case! Yesterday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected the Georgia State Attorney ...
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In so many post-conviction innocence cases the biggest hurdle we face comes from the State successfully arguing: “Innocence does not ...
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Last month we shared a two-part update on the Joey Watkins case. Part I detailed Joey’s innocence and how previous ...
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Last week, in a two-sentence decision, the powers that be again turned a blind eye to Joey Watkins’ quest for ...
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Joey Watkins is innocent. You don’t have to take our word for it. Take the word of Dr. Paul Steffes, ...
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I am thrilled to report that a Muscogee County Court recently ordered that our client Johnny Lee Gates is entitled ...
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Thanks for TEN. Because of your wonderful generosity, GIP now has TEN employees – including two new staff attorneys and ...
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To most Americans, the scene is a familiar one: a person walks down the austere stone steps of a courthouse ...
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When The State Loses Or Destroys Key Evidence... This week’s Undisclosed episode - “Mix Tape” - focuses on lost evidence ...
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Ashli McBride, Junior at Georgia State University What did you learn about wrongful convictions and innocence work throughout the course of ...
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RACE AND WRONGFUL CONVICTION  Muscogee County prosecutor's tally of jurors' race in late 1970s death penalty trial. In a few ...
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Today, October 2nd is Wrongful Conviction Day, a day to spread awareness about the causes of false convictions and to ...
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Remember during Season 2 of Undisclosed how you could listen to Mark Free’s trial audio, but every time the Undisclosed team ...
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How Alabama’s law on judicial override increases risk of executing the innocent Two of the many great lawyers at the ...
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It has been an exciting and action-packed summer for the Georgia Innocence Project. As we continue to work hard on ...
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ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION                            February 29, 2016 Ga ...
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From Aimee Maxwell I want to interrupt my previously scheduled blog post about the Googe exoneration to discuss the report ...
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From Aimee Maxwell In my last blog entry I talked about CODIS hits. Quick reminder – CODIS hits are cases ...
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From Aimee Maxwell, GIP Executive Director First, sorry I’ve been MIA. Our office renovation is almost complete plus I received ...
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Aimee Maxwell, Executive Director No, that’s not really how we created our groundbreaking partnership with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ...
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From Aimee Maxwell, Executive Director Last Thursday I was driving to work, looking forward to a fantastic day. That afternoon ...
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GIP has been working on Paul Tyner since 2003. In fact, he is case number 183. During our investigation we ...
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Something to Celebrate! GIP Exonerates Another Georgia Man Through a first-in-the-nation initiative launched by the Georgia Innocence Project, we have ...
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2/23/2015 Today at the Georgia Legislature The Senate non-civil judiciary committee will be discussing SB 94, a bill to reform ...
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Interns – They are the best and, sometimes, the worst thing about being Executive Director of the Georgia Innocence Project ...
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This past weekend, Melissa and I attended a going-away party for one of our volunteers, Apryl Davis. Apryl is joining ...
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 We want to  share some holiday messages from our clients.  We are so touched by all of these letters and ...
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