Amicus Brief: Keith Winfield
CIFS, Boston College Innocence Program, the Committee for Public Counsel Services Innocence Program, the Exoneration Project, the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Professor Brandon L. Garrett, Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung, Professor Jessica S. Henry, and Professor Jeff Kukucka filed this letter in support of granting further review for Keith Winfield. This brief, filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, argues that the appeals court erred in denying Winfield’s petition based on ineffective assistance of counsel due to not consulting with or obtaining a defense expert.
Amicus Brief: Lamont Hunter
CIFS, the Innocence Project, and the Ohio Innocence Project filed this brief in the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio in Lamont Hunter’s case to argue that especially in a capital murder case, courts should allow full discovery to defendant. Without appropriate discovery, and in a case like this one where forensic science evidence was misstated at trial, injustice follows.
Amicus Brief: Decarius Holliday
CIFS and the Innocence Network filed this brief in the Supreme Court of Louisiana in Dacarius Holliday’s case to argue that faulty forensic evidence and related false testimony--particularly regarding child sexual abuse--has contributed both to wrongful convictions and inappropriately enhanced sentences. False forensic evidence and improper interrogation tactics can lead to false confessions, further contributing to wrongful convictions.