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	<description>Working to right social injustice</description>
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		<title>Shaken Baby Case Update</title>
		<link>http://www.dallascandobetter.org/2012/04/shaken-baby-case-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court’s first ruling of this Term — a controversial decision in which a majority simply ran out of patience with a lower court – had threatened to send a grandmother back to prison in a highly contested “shaken baby’ case.  Now, the woman will remain free.  On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown commuted the sentence of Shirley Ree Smith to the time she had already served behind bars — almost ten years, according to her lawyers, who now will try to get the conviction overturned. Read More.]]></description>
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		<title>Dewey Bozella &#8211; Freed Two Years Ago Wins In the Ring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bittersweet victory in the ring, exoneree Dewey Bozella from New York age 52 beat a 30 year old boxer from Houston in the boxing ring on saturday at Staples center in Los Angels. Bozella said it would be his first and last professional fight. His dream now is to open a boxing facility in New York as vehicle to mentor to children. Bozella was freed after 26 years in prison for a crime he didn&#8217;t commit when a file with exculpatory evidence that police had withheld was found. Read more in the New York Times. Check out his foundation&#8217;s website for ways to give and help make his dream come true. (IRS Status pending)]]></description>
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		<title>Two Men Exonerated Today &#8211; One in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Morton walked out of the Williams County Courthouse in Texas today a free man thanks to DNA evidence and the Innocence Project of New York. Morton was wrongfully convicted in 1986 of killing his wife, based only on circumstantial evidence. DNA has now proven another man was responsible. His exoneration will be complete once the Court of Criminal Appeals rules in agreement with the Judge&#8217;s recommendation. What I find really upsetting (I mean it&#8217;s all upsetting) is that he was told years ago he would likely have gotten parole if he had shown remorse &#8211; there have been issues in Texas with other exonerees claiming to have been told the same thing when they came up for parole and having spent longer in prison because they would not admit and show remorse for a crime they did not commit. So not okay Texas! Obie Anthony was freed today in California after serving 17 years for a crime he says, and now the court agrees, he didn&#8217;t commit. Loyola law students worked since 2008 to free him. Anthony reports he plans to spend time with his family and would like to become an investigator. I love the vast number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for Amanda Knox!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Knox is freed after four years in prison! I feel for the victim&#8217;s family but having the wrong person in prison is not justice. The basis for her release was DNA evidence that was severely mishandled by the Italian police. Read the NY Times coverage here.]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill a Mockingbird</title>
		<link>http://www.dallascandobetter.org/2011/09/to-kill-a-mockingbird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love that this book is being talked about and addressed in the month of October! If you haven&#8217;t read it yet consider this your homework assignment. It&#8217;s the story of wrongful conviction before wrongful conviction became a national media darling. It&#8217;s painful and hard and a really important piece of our cultural dialogue. The Wyly Theatre in Dallas is hosting a &#8220;pay for what you can&#8221; performance of the play on October 21. More info here.]]></description>
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		<title>Could the Youngest Person Executed in the U.S. have been Innocent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This makes me sick. Even if he was guilty 14 is too young to be executed (not that anyone should ever be) but God help us if he was innocent &#8211; &#8220;we the people&#8221; killed an innocent child. That is the question being asked in an article on Huffington Post and by Steve Mckenzie an attorney in South Carolina. The article talks about two girls who were murdered and how a young boy George Junius Stinney joined the search party to look for the girls when they went missing. He told someone he had scene the girls riding their bikes earlier in the day. That got back to the police and he was arrested for murder. At age 14 he was put to death and needed to sit on books on the electric chair to be tall enough for his head to reach. The police say he confessed. This was without his parents present and after they promised him ice cream in exchange. There is no physical evidence. I would venture that it would it would be next to impossible for this skinny little boy to overpower and kill two little girls with a railroad pick. I feel sick. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clemency Denied</title>
		<link>http://www.dallascandobetter.org/2011/09/clemency-denied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troy Davis is still set to be executed tomorrow in Georgia for a crime he very likely did not commit. I feel physically ill.]]></description>
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		<title>Execution Action Alert</title>
		<link>http://www.dallascandobetter.org/2011/09/execution-action-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just in from TCADP . . .URGENT! TX Gov. Perry has left Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in charge of today&#8217;s execution while he is out of the state. Please CALL DEWHURST RIGHT NOW to ask him to stay the execution of Duane Buck, which is scheduled for 6pm Central time tonight. CALL NOW! 512 463-0001. And from the NCADP . . .Dear Supporters, On May 5, 1997, Mr. Buck was convicted of capital murder in Harris County for the July 1995 shooting deaths of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler. A third person, Phyllis Taylor, was also shot, but survived her wound. Ms. Taylor has forgiven Mr. Buck and does not wish to see him executed. During Mr. Buck’s trial, the prosecutor elicited improper testimony from Dr. Walter Quijano that the fact that Mr. Buck was African-American increased the likelihood of his being dangerous in the future. (In Texas, a jury must make a finding of future dangerousness as a prerequisite for a death sentence.) The State urged the jury in its closing argument to rely on Dr. Quijano’s testimony. The jury did so, found that Mr. Buck would be a future danger, and he was sentenced to death. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am Troy Davis</title>
		<link>http://www.dallascandobetter.org/2011/09/i-am-troy-davis-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This insanity has got to stop! Good for Huffington Post for having the imminent execution of Troy Davis as their headline story. The list of celebrities and politicians calling for a stay is tremendous and extends to former FBI chief William Sessions. People (read anyone in Georgia with the power to stop this execution) need to take their egos out of this. A man&#8217;s life or death is not the proper subject over which one engages in a &#8220;pissing contest&#8221;. Yes, it takes a tremendous human being to step back and look if they have made a mistake and take their ego out of the equation and the world is not filled with a huge number of said humans but this is just insanity to the highest degree. Sorry to be such a misanthrope this morning but seriously what kind of society do we live in that allows innocent people to be executed in the name of &#8220;finality&#8221; in the law or some other legal fiction. This case has all the classic elements of wrongful conviction, faulty identification procedures, hearsay, jailhouse snitch, the list goes on. Check out the Huffington Post story - this has got to stop!!!]]></description>
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		<title>Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.dallascandobetter.org/2011/09/blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kristina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our blog is in transition. Look for something new and exciting coming in a couple months (hopefully sooner). In the meantime I will try to do a better job of communicating the social justice stories of the day. I have completely over committed myself lately and there is no sign of that abating any time soon. Please be patient with me and if you want to get involved and blog yourself let me know! My goal is for this to be a social justice conversation. Happy fall Dallas and beyond. Stay in touch. Kristina]]></description>
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