Trace Moffatt is Innocent

08/31/2024

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Benjamine Spencer, a Dallas man who spent 34 years of his life in prison for a crime he has always insisted he did not commit. Today, he was officially exonerated.

08/31/2024

Jane Dorotik was convicted of murdering her husband in 2001, but was released over faulty science underlying the forensic evidence used in her trial.

08/31/2024

Please share the world needs to know how horrible and corrupt this is!

On this date in 2020, Robert DuBoise of , Fla., was freed after nearly 37 years of . DuBoise was in the 1983 murder of Barbara Grams. The case against DuBoise was built heavily on analysis, one of the most discredited of all the past techniques that were presented as forensically-based but have since fallen under the heading of "junk science." The DuBoise case is one of 33 cases out of the nearly 3,600 documented in our National Registry of Exonerations where bitemark testimony was a major contributing factor.

In fact, samples from 1983 from the Grams murder case had existed all along that could have cleared DuBoise's name. They were uncovered in a reinvestigation in 2020 and proved not to be a match for DuBoise, but were a match to the DNA profile of another man already in the FBI's CODIS database. That match eventually led to the indictment in 2022 of two men who have been charged in the murder of Grams and another Tampa area woman who was killed in 1983.

Because DuBoise had been convicted of two minor non-violent crimes when he was very young, it took an act of the Florida Legislature for compensation to be awarded to him, with the state approving a $1.83 million payment to him in 2023. He also had filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Tampa, and a settlement of $14 million was reached six months ago.

You can read the full case history in Robert DuBoise's case at: https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5807

08/29/2024

A fixture in bull riding events around the country, Dallas surgeon Tandy Freeman tends to much more than just concussions and broken bones.

08/29/2024

 thank God for all the memories that will carry us through until we get this injustice behind us 🥹💁🏼‍♀️❤️‍🩹

08/29/2024

🖤 how they treat these people is sick ❤️‍🩹😞

"It has been 10 years since my release, and the memory of extreme heat without air conditioning haunts me, especially as the planet continues to warm each year. One of my greatest concerns now is for those still imprisoned."

08/28/2024

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30 likes, 9 comments. “If Oklahoma City Police Department has nothing to hide why would they delete their emails regarding one of their biggest cases?!?!!! SOMETHING STINKS! TRUTH SHALL PREVAIL”

08/28/2024

On Sunday, Feb. 13, 2000, Jane Dorotik’s husband Bob went out for a run in Valley Center, San Diego County, and never came back. Three days later, Jane was arrested for his murder. KPBS is telling Jane’s story in her own voice in “Free Jane,” a new podcast available on kpbs.org/freejane star...

08/27/2024

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08/24/2024

RIP Cousins by Blood Podcast ❤️‍🩹🥹❤️‍🩹

08/23/2024

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Legal action aims to force criminal justice department to air condition prisons, where 85,000 are at risk of heat illnesses

08/22/2024

08/22/2024

The fact that there are so many roadblocks erected to prevent success in freeing falsely convicted inmates from death row, and that it takes so long to bring about an exoneration, is truly scandalo…

08/22/2024

🙏🏻😞❤️‍🩹😞🙏🏻

Yesterday crushed me. On a day I used to call Justice for Alissa Day, I was reminded that my father, Alissa’s killer, is a free man. That I couldn’t correct the injustice Alissa experienced in her short, sad, life. I wasn’t proud of what I’ve done for her.

Then, I found this picture. It’s the first flyer ever made for Alissa. I made it when I was 12. That same year I assumed all the “motherly” responsibilities put on Alissa like cooking Thanksgiving dinner and creating Christmas. Without skipping a beat I stepped up to that plate. Just like I did when my father asked me to be the family contact for her case when I was a teenager, like I did when my father was arrested in 2008 & when the police told me to get media attention for Alissa in 2017.

When I saw this picture, now at age 36… I imagined watching a 12 year old making their sister’s missing persons flyer alone, a 13 year old wrapping her own Christmas gifts… a freshman in college taking on the responsibility of being the family contact for a missing person’s case… and showing up to her only parent’s federal trial alone, acting as his legal secretary after he fired his public defender. I imagine watching a 20 something who wanted nothing more than a simple life give it all up because the alternative felt selfish.

When I saw this picture, I realized that in all the empathy and compassion I have for Alissa, I haven’t afforded myself the same kindness. When I saw this picture, I decided to become the person I needed after Alissa was gone not just for her, but finally for myself.

I’ve taken my time to grieve, now it’s time to live, be proud of how far I’ve come, and as always keep trying to make this world just a little bit better for as many people as I can, myself included and I really hope you can do the same. 💜

08/22/2024

I don't think they can speak to any of their policies 🤷🏼‍♀️😞

08/21/2024

Good God 🥹😞🥹

08/20/2024

08/18/2024

As laws are passed to support the wrongfully convicted, some officials in the legal system push back.