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Congress views the new Act as an important step to protecting

crime victims are now participants in federal criminal cases. That new reality must be reflected

so long as at least one other judge agreed to reverse the conviction and order a new trial with a proper instruction on flight and guilt. 18

where he and his wife Dorothy sang labor and Zionist songs from their youth. When he moved to New York

two names immediately popped into my head: Seymour Hirsh of the New Yorker

there would be few left. The New York Times and its publishers

in light of the new sensitivity toward child exploitation

and I had become the “go to” lawyer in such cases. This reputation brought me several new cases

the Nevada Supreme Court reversed the murder convictions and ordered a new trial. 69

as well as unidentified hairs under the fingernails of the victims. This new and suppressed evidence corroborates Stoeckley’s original account that she remembers being in the house and participating in the murders. Had the trial judge known about this corroboration

and even compelling evidence of innocence does not guarantee a new trial. In fact

I obtain a working knowledge—always subject to reevaluation based on new evidence—of what may have occurred

nearly everyone thought we had no chance of winning. New York Magazine

because the courtroom doors were shut to new scientific evidence that could prove both innocence and guilt.

he would have quickly been acquitted. But this was Indiana. They had a trophy in Tyson. And they had a trial judge determined to prevent a new trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed on a two to two tie vote by the Indiana...