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2015 Was a Record Year For Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 681 Views Arson, brooklyn, Cameron Todd Willingham, capital punishment, Cheese, chocolate chip cookies, committed doubters, controlled substance, criminal justice system, Death Penalty, death row, declared innocent, drug crimes, Drug war, exonerated, false conviction, false convictions, false guilty pleas, forensic arson investigation, freedom, Harassment, Harris County, Homicide, intellectually disabled, judicial misconduct, Justice System, juvenile, kelly patterson, la, Louisiana, Making a Murderer, mentally ill, mistaken for drugs, Mother Jones, MotherJones.com, National Registry of Exonerations, new orleans, New York, no victim no crime, no-crime crimes, non-violent, ny, Officer Misconduct, overrepresented on death row, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, prosecutor misconduct, radio program, Radley Balko, repost, rights, riven with errors and official misconduct, Serial, Texas, the war on some drugs, tortilla dough, University of Michigan Law School, victimless crime, washington post, wrongfull convictions

As originally reported by Mother Jones, a report from the University of Michigan Law School has declared that 2015 set

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Is Fingerprint Identification Really as Foolproof as Portrayed?

October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 953 Views Accountability, Alfred Stratton, blood, bloody thumbprint, Civil rights, common points, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courtroom, courts, crime, crime scene, Dishonesty, evidence, fingerprints, Forensic science, freedom, grease, Henry Faulds, identical twins, Investigation, Justice System, kelly patterson, LA Times, Maryland, murder, myths, National Academy of Sciences, nevada cop block, nvcopblock.org, partial print, police, rights, Scotland Yard, smudges, sound science, sweat, trials, unemployed ruffian, wrongfull convictions

It’s a pretty accepted idea that fingerprint evidence is an airtight method of proving that an accused person was at

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“Let the Fire Burn” Las Vegas Radical Movie Night Free Screening Oct. 10th

October 9, 2014October 16, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 540 Views abuse, Civil rights, Corruption, cover up, free screening, join us, kelly patterson, las vegas, Let the Fire Burn, lies, MOVE, murder, nvcopblock, Philadelphia, police, Police brutality, police shootings, Radical Movie Night, sunset activist collective, wrongfull convictions

Radical Movie Night in Las Vegas (via KellyWPatterson.com and NVCopBlock.org) September’s debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went

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Brian Sumner Arrested for Filming Cops (Call Flood Request) Updated

September 10, 2014October 16, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 733 Views Accountability, bill of rights, Brian Sumner, Civil rights, Clovis Police, constitution, coroner's inquest, courts, first amendment, Free FRESNO, Freedom of speech, Fresno Liberty Movement, kelly patterson, nevada cop block, police, trials, video taping, wrongfull convictions

Update: Charges Dismissed Against Brian Sumner Brian Sumner has reported via the FaceBook event page that his charges were dropped

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