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Mindy Rickerson Readdy Original Article11/14/2013By Valerie Rowell An Appling woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with falsely accusing two men of sexually assaulting her, authorities said.Mindy Rickerson Readdy, 32, was charged with makin...

Othmar Matos Original Article11/26/2013ORANJESTAD - It's over... After having fought against a false accusation of child abuse for almost two years , there is now a court ruling. On June 17, 2013 the Public Prosecutor indicated that they were n...

"Natasha Foster, from the Ballymoney Road in the Co Antrim town, was said by her defence to be "a woman scorned" when she appeared before Antrim Crown Court on Friday. Her lawyer Michael Smith told Judge Desmond Marrinan that the false accusation had been made out of "anger and revenge". He explained that Foster had desperately wanted to get back with a former lover and had consensual sex with him. But he later texted her saying that he was not interested in getting back into a relationship. The lawyer told the court: "After he sent the text, she was distraught and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." He further revealed that Foster later went to her doctor and admitted that she was a "compulsive liar" and that she was prescribed medication."

Lee James (left) & Stephen Norley Original Article11/28/2013By Steven Morris A man who killed a disabled neighbour in a vicious vigilante attack because he wrongly believed he was a paedophile will serve at least 18 years in prison for what the...

Original Article10/01/2013A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped in a park in Margate has admitted wasting police time.Charmaine Ripley, 26, of Leslie Avenue, Margate, sparked a large-scale police investigation after claiming she was raped...

Video Description: Karen Newirth, a staff attorney from the Innocence Project who focuses on eyewitness identification explains that although witness identification seems to be the gold standard for prosecution, 75% of 300 exonerations the Project...

Video Description: What is a coerced or false confession? Many people think they would never give a false confession. Learn how a coercive interrogation can cause a false confession. The techniques of interview and interrogation taught to law enfo...

Stephen Norley & Lee James Original ArticleThis is more proof of why the online hit-list (registry) should be taken offline and used by police only!10/28/2013BRISTOL - A man wrongly accused of being a pedophile was beaten unconscious, set on fi...

A man who spent 20 years in prison before being cleared of rape and murder charges by DNA evidence has won an initial battle in his bid to hold Lake County police and prosecutors financially responsible. Ruling on motions to dismiss Juan Rivera's lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber let almost every allegation in the suit go forward. The ruling allows Rivera to keep trying to hold prosecutors liable for his ordeal. A successful lawsuit against prosecutors is rare because they enjoy broad legal immunity, experts said. Leinenweber also declined to dismiss a defamation claim, meaning authorities could still be liable for publicly insisting on Rivera's guilt even after DNA indicated he didn't kill 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan in 1992. At issue are quotes from police and a prosecutor reported in the media, including an officer's assertion, reported by The New York Times shortly before Rivera was freed, that he was "guilty as the day is long."

Beverly Troupe Original Article10/09/2013By Maurice Chammah One morning in late 1986, Beverly Troupe approached her mother and said she felt a burning sensation when she urinated. This wasn't the first time. LaVern Troupe had taken her 8-year-o...

FORT WORTH - When Ruby Cole Session met with Gov. Rick Perry in April 2009, some people told her it was a waste of time. Her son Tim Cole had been wrongly convicted of sexual assault and died in prison, and there were those who said Perry wouldn't be sympathetic to her cause. But after that first encounter, Mrs. Session was confident that Perry would sign the Tim Cole Act, which compensates wrongly convicted people and also created the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, which was designed to help reverse other wrongful imprisonments. "My mother said: 'No, no, no. I felt his heart. He'll sign it'," said her son Cory Session of Fort Worth. Mrs. Session died Thursday at her home in Fort Worth of an aneurysm, Cory Session said. Her 77th birthday was Sunday.

Vanessa S. Pierce Original Article10/08/2013 An Alexandria woman who accused another person of rape Monday now is facing a charge of filing a false claim, according to police. Police were called to the 1400 block of Hardtner Street Monday after...

Original Article10/10/2013 A teenager has spoken of his nine-month hell in jail awaiting trial after being accused of rape and kidnap. _____ was freed on Tuesday after being cleared by a jury of tying a 16-year-old girl to his bed and attacking ...

Rachel Ashworth Original ArticleAnd yet another reason the online hit-list should be offline and used by police only, and extortion / mugshot websites should be taken offline and the people in charge arrested.10/07/2013By TOM GARDNER A mother-t...

Original Article12/12/2013By JOHN MONKMANNING - Be sure you're correct when you call someone a registered sex offender. LIke, really sure. A Clarendon County jury awarded $890,000 in damages to a man who his fellow condominium owners - all on th...

Original Article12/11/2013By CHRISTINE DEMPSEYVERNON - A University of Connecticut student accused of falsely claiming she was raped had her charges dismissed Wednesday in Superior Court in Rockville.Isabella Himmel of Chicago was arrested in Sept...

"For six years, one month and 12 days, Jerry Paul Tippins had remained in jail accused of one of the worst things imaginable. But Thursday his longtime proclamations of innocence echoed loudly through a Jacksonville courtroom when he was found not guilty of sexually abusing his 2-year-old daughter."

"A postman who has served 17 years in prison for an attempted rape he has always denied has walked free after DNA evidence was heard at the Appeal Court. Victor Nealon, 53, was living in Redditch, Worcestershire, when he was convicted of attacking a woman in January 1997 and jailed for life. New DNA evidence revealed the presence of another man's genetic material, three Appeal Court judges were told. Mr Nealon's barrister said the evidence was "dynamite" for his client."

Kirsty Debanks Original Article10/21/2013By Ben Wilkinson A woman jailed for making a false rape claim says the lie cost her "everyone's respect".Kirsty Debanks said she was in a "bad place" when she made the allegation against her boyfriend an...

Scenes of a Crime Documentary Description: "SCENES OF A CRIME" explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile child murder trial in New York state. The film won an IFP Gotham Indep...