Via the daily university listserv, I see that Barry Scheck is officially starting a branch of the Innocence Project here at WVU:
Famed attorney Barry Scheck will be here Monday (Sept. 26) to officially launch the Innocence Project at WVU. Scheck co-founded the first project in 1992 at Yeshiva University. Since then, the project that employs DNA analysis and traditional research has helped free some 162 wrongly convicted prisoners nationwide. Scheck will speak at 4 p.m. in the Lugar Courtroom at the College of Law. The project here is a collaboration between the law school and the Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. The WVU project is now considering the applications of more that 100 inmates across West Virginia.
Good news.
Also, the unintentional comedy from listserv headlines continues:
ENGINEERING GETS TOP RANKING FOR HISPANICS
Apparently, our school of engineering builds a mean hispanic.
ppGaz
Why can’t the “wrongly convicted” just suck it up and do their time …. or lay down on the lethal injection table?
You lost …. get over it.
Salt Lick
Our university newspaper recently carried the headline:
“Engineering endows first female”
Steven D
There are no innocents. Only unconvicted.
docG
Please keep us up to date with this worthwhile project at your university. Perhaps someone can encourage family courts to move into the 21st Century and use DNA testing for positive paternity identification instead of making non-fathers pay child support for someone else’s child.
TallDave
If they’re responsible for Salma Hayek, I’d say that headline is well-deserved.
the friendly grizzly
DocG: The fems won that issue already. In California (where else?) judges have already decided that a father who isn’t a father but who has been a “father” to a child he did not father, has to pay support.
Imaj
ppGaz – comments like that make Miss Karma come up & bitcha in the azz ne day. I can see it now, you’re driving to work real early after hanging out with the fellas at the strip club all night long. You were the designated ‘don’t get too drunk’ driver.One of your friends accidentally dropped a dub sack of coke in the back of your car. You don’t know this and you just continue on to work. A cop pulls you over for a dimm brake light out and happens to notice the lil sack in your car.Guess who’s it is now?!
Haha, life can get you at anytime. just watch out.
There are true innocents who need help and unless you’ve been locked up, you’ll have no idea how bad it is to just bend over while the law screws you.
Now what?!