The law of innocence book5/18/2023 ![]() We know from our work that the system gets it wrong at alarming rates. There is a profound misconception in this country that any time a criminal conviction has gone through the appellate process, all credible evidence of innocence has been fully investigated and rejected by the courts.īut, for many cases, nothing could be further from the truth. In doing so, Missouri exalted the finality of an execution over the truth of Mr. Taylor’s case and the courts refused to stay the execution to allow review of his innocence claim. 2 request, which the Innocence Project and the Midwest Innocence Project joined, to convene a board of inquiry to fully review both the new and old evidence in Mr. ![]() Taylor was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend and her three children in 2004, despite evidence and witnesses putting him nearly 2,000 miles away in California at the time of their deaths. Today, the state of Missouri executed Leonard “Raheem” Taylor even though a full investigation of his innocence claim was never conducted. ![]()
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