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Entries by Judge H. Lee Sarokin from 11/2010

Can This Be Happening in America- A Prosecutor Investigating the Motives of Student Journalists Seeking to Free a Man They Believe to be Innocent?

| Posted 11.04.2010
Read More: Anthony McKinney, Investigation of Student Journalists, Medill Innocence Project, Cook County Prosecutor, Prosecutorial Misconduct, News

The Medill Innocence Project of Northwestern University spent 3 years investigating the conviction of Anthony McKinney who was convicted of murder 31 ...

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Why Do Innocent People Confess to Crimes They Did Not Commit?

| Posted 11.08.2010
Read More: False Confessions, Governor Tim Kaine.DNA Exoneration, Frontline, Michelle Bosko Case, Coerced Confessions, Prosecutorial Misconduct, News

The answer all too often is coercion, intimidation, deceit and trickery. All of those techniques were employed to obtain the conviction of four innocent sailors for the rape and murder of a woman in Norfolk, Virginia.

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My Dear Grandson -- What I Wish for You and Your Generation on the Occasion of Your 16th Birthday

| Posted 11.18.2010
Read More: Political Campaigns, Media Commentators, Climate Change, Energy Independence, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Political Ads, Sarah Palin, Guns, Global Warming, Dick Cheney, News

That it will be more important to assure that there is food in every kitchen rather than a gun in every house. That those who decry the role of the federal government will stop blaming it for not doing enough. That...

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