Entries tagged with “Robin Wynne”
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Sep 17, 2020
Robert DuBoise and Tina Jimerson Exonerated Decades After Wrongful Capital Prosecutions in Florida, Arkansas
A Florida man and an Arkansas woman, convicted of murder in separate cases involving junk science and prosecutorial misconduct, have been exonerated, decades after being wrongfully capitally…
Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,May 14, 2020
Former Prosecutor, Now on Arkansas Supreme Court, Cited for ‘Bad Faith’ Destruction of Exculpatory Evidence in Death Penalty Case
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has found that a former prosecutor now serving as a justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court deliberately destroyed exculpatory evidence in a case in which he had sought the death penalty. On April 29, 2020, a unanimous three-judge panel of the federal appeals court affirmed the rulings of a federal district court overturning the convictions of life-sentenced prisoners Tina Jimerson and John…