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	<title>The Innocence Institute of Point Park University</title>
	
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	<description>An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.</description>
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		<title>Occupy the Criminal Justice System: From Stop-and-Frisk to Prison Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, February 20, actions will be occurring across the country in solidarity with the more than 2 million people locked in cages &#8212; the incarcerated. Monday, is National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners. &#8220;OWS is a struggle for human rights,&#8221; said Jay Chiu, an activist with Occupy Wall Street. &#8220;You can&#8217;t take a stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Tenth Amendment Applies to Criminal Justice, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[10th Amendment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the current U.S. Supreme Court term began, Justice Antonin Scalia made headlines by appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testifying that &#8220;[i]t was a great mistake to put routine drug offenses into the federal courts.&#8221; Scalia was not arguing that drugs should be legal, but rather that there is a limit to what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Falls Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial interpretation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court decesions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Collapse of American Criminal Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. ciminal law and procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William J. Stuntz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[America’s flawed criminal justice system THE TITLE OF William J. Stuntz’s masterwork, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice, is at first glance a misnomer. “Collapse” does not describe a system that seems to be humming along, processing ever-larger numbers of Americans. Stuntz notes that our rate of incarceration is closing in on 500 inmates per 100,000 people, up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panel: Streamline criminal justice boards in La. system</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[criminal justice policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innocence Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mandatory minimum sentence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pardon board]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A panel of judges, attorneys, legislators and others suggested Thursday that the Louisiana Legislature create a new court in Baton Rouge and merge the state’s pardon and parole boards. The proposals by the Louisiana Sentencing Commission will be considered in the legislative session that starts March 12. A number of ideas emerged over months of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Game Over:  Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the Culture of Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Game Over"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Moushey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dvorchak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Sandusky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Paterno]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Pre-Order Bill Moushey &#38; Bob Dvorchak&#8217;s Book Available April 17, 2012 Order  Here:  BARNES &#38; NOBLES]]></description>
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		<title>Texas judge faces inquiry on wrongful conviction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Ken Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Morton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas — A special investigation will be launched to determine if a former prosecutor who is now a judge hid evidence in a trial that sent a man wrongly convicted in his wife&#8217;s murder to prison for nearly a quarter-century, Texas&#8217; chief justice ordered Thursday. A proceeding known as a &#8220;court of inquiry&#8221; will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Albany, Top Judge Seeks to Curb False Convictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innocence Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Jonathan Lippman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[videotaping interrogations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY — Instituting new safeguards against wrongful convictions and raising the age at which criminal defendants are considered adults should be top priorities of legislators and the legal community in New York, the state’s chief judge said Tuesday. Delivering his annual State of the Judiciary address from the wood-paneled, red-carpeted Court of Appeals chamber, the chief judge, Jonathan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney: Lawyer earned fees paid by exonerees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[compensating wrongly convicted]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Glasheen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — An attorney credited for pushing a law that made Texas the most generous state in the nation in compensating the wrongly convicted earned his fees by fighting to get two clients as much money as possible after they were exonerated by DNA, his lawyer said Monday. Opening statements were held in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Counties ready to handle state’s juvenile offenders, study says</title>
		<link>http://innocenceinstitute.org/blog/counties-ready-to-handle-states-juvenile-offenders-study-says/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=counties-ready-to-handle-states-juvenile-offenders-study-says</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juvenile prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juveniles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[County governments have invested nearly a half-billion dollars over the past 15 years to modernize juvenile lockups and now have the capacity to absorb offenders currently housed in the state’s youth prisons, if those facilities are closed, a new study contends. The report [PDF] by the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice offers fresh data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former district attorney should face inquiry in Morton prosecution, judge says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DNatale</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[District Attorney Ken Anderson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GEORGETOWN — Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson should face a court of inquiry to examine allegations that he hid evidence that could have spared Michael Morton from a wrongful murder conviction and almost 25 years in prison, a state district judge ruled Friday. The finding means District Judge Sid Harle found probable cause to [...]]]></description>
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