Library Resources for Criminology/Policing & Justice: Wrongful Convictions/Innocence

A Tasmanian coroner says Hobart woman Susan Neill-Fraser acted alone when she murdered her partner Bob Chappell on the couple's yacht. ABC News 24/01/14.

A lawyer who specialises in miscarriages of justice claims he can identify four errors in the murder trial of Hobart woman Susan Neill-Fraser that warrant review. ABC News 20/08/14.

Witness adds voice to claims Stephen Ward made a scapegoat after government claims inability to locate full transcript of trial By Ben Quinn, The Guardian, 18/01/14

Stephen Ward’s trial was disgraceful. There can be no justification for it. Ward was made a scapegoat for the Profumo affair which became so toxic for the Macmillan government By Geoffrey Robertson, The Independent, 19/12/14.

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PhD Thesis by MD Birdling, 2012.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is an independent public body that was set up in March 1997 by the Criminal Appeal Act 1995. Our purpose is to review possible miscarriages of justice in the criminal courts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and refer appropriate cases to the appeal courts.

Search for the following terms on the AIC Website:
wrongful conviction
miscarriage of justice

By David Hamer & Gary Edmond, The Conversation, 27/11/13.

Hamer, D 2014, 'Wrongful Convictions, Appeals, and the Finality Principle: The Need for a Criminal Cases Review Commission', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol.37, no.1, p.270

Lynne W 2013, 'Wrongful Convictions in Australia', University of Cincinnatti Law Review, vol.80, no.4, pp.1391-1414

An organisation advocating for the wrongfully convicted in Canada.

A USA based website.

University of Cincinnati, College of Law

News.com, 24/08/15

ABC News, 24/08/15.

This article from the Canberra Times discusses the David Eastman case. Eastman was convicted for the murder of ACT police chief Colin Winchester. Canberra Times 24/08/14.

David Eastman's lawyers seek to halt retrial for murder of assistant commissioner Colin Winchester By Elizabeth Byrne, News.com, 02/12/14

Doran, M 2015, David Eastman's murder case delayed again as barrister withdraws for health reasons, ABC news, 19/06/15.

The Victorian Department of Justice commissioned an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the conviction of Mr Farah Abdulkadir Jama. The inquiry was conducted by former Justice Frank Vincent. The Vincent Report is the final report of this inquiry. The report was tabled on 06/05/10.

Leo, RA 2014, 'Paul Tappan Award Winner Keynote Address: the justice gap and the promise of criminological research', Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, vol.15, no.3, pp.1-37.
Keywords: justice, criminology, police interrogation, false confession, wrongful conviction.

Thirty years after their convictions in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in rural North Carolina, based on confessions that they quickly repudiated and said were coerced, two mentally disabled half-brothers were declared innocent and released on Tuesday by a Robeson County court. The Age 03/09/14.

HE WAS convicted of murdering his three young daughters in an arson attack and paid the ultimate price with his life...
Published on News.Com 11/03/15

He was painted as a mastermind who beat a man to death. But the case against him doesn’t stack up and the clock is ticking to stop his execution. In just 21 days, Richard Glossip will be executed for his role in a 1997 killing. News.com, 26/08/15.

MSN news 17/10/14

The Age, 20/11/14
Cleveland: A judge has dropped all charges against a man who has spent 39 years in prison for murder, making him the longest-held US prisoner to be exonerated, an attorney for the Ohio Innocence Project said.

The Age, 15/05/15
A United States governor has pardoned a man who spent nearly three decades in prison for a crime officials now say he did not commit.

A young woman who Adrian Bayley was convicted of raping may have made a mistake in identifying him as her attacker 12 years after the crime was committed, a court was told on Wednesday.
The Age, 09/03/16