Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Australia
Bryant Hevesi, Sky News · 31 January 2025
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has criticised the decision to grant two men compensation by the federal government’s National Redress Scheme for alleged historical…
wrongful convictions
After nearly two decades in prison, a court vacates the conviction, citing unreliable eyewitness identification.
1 June 2024
false memory science
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10 May 2024
Australia
The headline of a report in the Age Newspaper on Wednesday 22 March 2023 read, “Gobbo seeks immunity deal to dob on police.” Gobbo refers, of course, to Nicola…
3 April 2023
Innocence Project
Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’
15 February 2023
Catholic Church
ST. LOUIS (MO)Catholic News Agency - EWTN [Denver CO]
8 September 2022
6 September 2022
Child abuse
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former Duval County teacher of the year said she is devastated and maintains she did nothing wrong after charges of child abuse were…
30 August 2022
False rape allegations
Sullivan Walter, 53, with, left to right, his brothers Joseph Walter and Byron Walter Sr, and Innocence Project New Orleans legal director Richard Davis…
26 August 2022
False memory and rital abuse
PanaTimes
19 August 2022
False allegations
Steven Avery from "Making A Murderer" on Netflix (Netflix)
18 August 2022
Celebrities
One of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Britain during the present century has been the conviction of the entertainer Rolf Harris following several…
21 July 2022
New Zealand
Inquiry into conviction of innocent man jailed for 19 years will investigate why crucial witness evidence not given to defence.
14 July 2022
#MeToo movement
Recent tweets by Stanford Law Professor and Amber Heard supporter, Michele Dauber, have viciously attacked Johnny Depp’s attorney Camille Vasquez. Dauber…
3 July 2022
Courts
Admin: A must-read from Joseph A. Neuberger & Diana Davison on alarming developments in Canadian law (Neuberger & Partners LLP, Toronto Criminal Lawyers)
1 July 2022
Catholic Church
Innocent (l to r): Rev. Thomas J. Wopperer, Rev. Martin H. Demek, Rev. Michael Scully,and Rev. Robert G. Beiter
27 June 2022
Courts
22 Jun, 2022 03:48 AM2 minutes to read
22 June 2022
Child abuse
False allegations of abuse during a custody battle can seriously harm children. Here's how psychiatrists can separate fact from fiction.
13 May 2022
Celebrities
Speaking out: Lady Brittan is seeking justice over the treatment of her husband, the former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, after false allegations were made…
1 March 2022
Celebrities
Prince Andrew has denied allegations made against him by Virginia Giuffre
10 February 2022
Child abuse
A jury unanimously found Richard Gidney 'not guilty' to every charge he faced
23 November 2021
Celebrities
To mark the tenth anniversary of his death ITV have broadcast another gratuitous ‘documentary’ about Jimmy Savile, Portrait of a Predator. Needless to say, it…
25 October 2021
#MeToo movement
For those committed to preserving a society worth living in, few sights could be more dispiriting than that of mass rallies undermining the presumption of…
19 March 2021
Courts
A Connecticut judge denied a request to cut short probation for a Long Island woman convicted of falsely accusing two former Sacred Heart University football…
26 August 2020
Courts
NSW Greens MLC David Shoebridge moved a motion in state parliament on 5 August, calling on the Department of Communities and Justice to release the figures…
14 August 2020
False rape allegations
Greg Kelley, the subject of Outcry, which shows a surprising, thorny, hyper-local yet deeply concerning saga. Photograph: Jim Redman/Courtesy of Showtime.
7 July 2020
Courts
THERE were dramatic scenes at Worcester Crown Court as a defendant, who went on to be jailed on four counts of perverting the course of justice, collapsed in…
25 June 2020
Courts
Jailed fantasist Carl Beech will have to hand over his assets of £23,960 to his only living victim, the former MP Harvey Proctor, a judge has ruled.
9 June 2020
#MeToo movement
In less than three years Ronan Farrow has become the most widely admired journalist in America for a series of scoops that began with an explosive story about…
19 May 2020
England
A serial liar who made false allegations of historical abuse lead to the wrongful imprisonment of a firefighter with an unblemished record of public service…
15 May 2020
#MeToo movement
In March, a 56-year-old California woman named Tara Reade publicly accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993. The issue caused an awkward rift among…
14 May 2020
Courts
A policewoman cried when she appeared in court today with three other officers all accused of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
6 January 2020
Celebrities
Officers face possible misconduct allegations
5 October 2019
Celebrities
The Met had vowed not to shy from historical sex abuse after the Jimmy Saville scandal
5 October 2019
Celebrities
Carl Beech is a liar, fraudster and paedophile.
26 July 2019
Catholic Church
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (slandered by Dr Noel Browne and John Cooney)
10 July 2018
#MeToo movement
“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”
22 May 2018
Courts
In the 50s, Arthur Miller used 17th-century Salem to comment on the ‘red scare’. His drama is chillingly pertinent in the first weeks of Trump’s presidency
15 February 2017
Child abuse
On the trail of the IICSAthon Part 2: Still waters running deep and the trigger that opened the floodgates
22 September 2016
Courts
Have you ever been the subject of a false accusation that led to you being investigated, or even charged with a criminal offense?
28 May 2014