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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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From inadvertent error to reckless conduct to outright disregard for the defendant’s due process rights, prosecutorial misconduct permeates our criminal ...
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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 the ...
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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 (GBI) ...
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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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Summer 2015, GIP Interns A Message from GIP Intern, Amanda Quiles, Summer 2015             I ...
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Dear Friend of the Georgia Innocence Project: TWENTY-SEVEN years after William Whitsett was arrested for the rape and murder of ...
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For the past 9 years, GIP has struggled to bring real criminal justice reform to Georgia. We are now one ...
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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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Yesterday was a good day for GIP.  One of our clients is going to get DNA testing done on the ...
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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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Yesterday, Monday, January 13, 2014 was the start of the new semester here at GIP.     GIP welcomed law ...
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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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Cards from our clients. Since GIP began in 2002, we have sent our clients holiday cards.  At first we just ...
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