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Check out Undisclosed Podcast's episode - "Hypothetical Firebreaks" - to learn the latest investigation updates in Dennis Perry's case, and to hear from three GIP lawyers.
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Today Calvin C. Johnson, Jr., Georgia's first DNA exoneree and GIP Board Member, spoke to over 400 ninth graders at Decatur High School about his wrongful imprisonment. Calvin told his heartbreaking and inspiring story of spending almost 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit before being exonerated through DNA evidence by the Innocence Project. Thanks to DHS's IB Coordinator Cheryl Nahmias and teacher Cherith Johnson (both pictured below) for helping introduce DHS 9th graders to wrongful conviction issues, and to DHS student Kenya Freeman (also pictured below) for introducing and facilitating Calvin's talk.
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In all aspects of the criminal justice system, race discrimination is pervasive. DNA exonerations reveal what many in society experience on a daily basis: that Black lives don’t matter as much as white lives. Despite comprising only 13% of the US population, the vast majority (62%) of DNA exonerees are Black. #WrongfulConvictionDay
Wrongful Conviction Day 2018 – Georgia Innocence Project
UncategorizedWrongful Conviction Day 2018 Posted 2018-10-022018-10-02 Matt HolbrookTo most Americans, the scene is a familiar one: a person walks down the austere stone steps of a courthouse or through the gates of a prison, flanked by a team of triumphant attorneys, met by a scrum of reporters. The...
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"This is my first time voting -- it feels good." - #AndreHatchett, free after 25 yrs. in prison https://t.co/snWcCTqs3w #ElectionDay https://t.co/FnY09pmnWV
Congratulations, Clemente! 14 years of wrongful imprisonment — a decade of which was spent on death row — is now behind you. https://t.co/dpZNMdp1Zk