Arizona Justice Project Statement on Louis Taylor

August 4, 2022 The Arizona Justice Project has represented Louis Taylor for over 20 years. We believe Louis Taylor was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted in [...]

Arizona Justice Project Staff Featured on Legal-Ease Podcast

Executive Director Lindsay Herf and Senior Litigation Counsel Karen Smith, were featured in the “Free, But Not Free,” episode of the Measured [...]

2021 Annual Report

Our 2021 Annual Report is available, you can view the report here: [...]

Join us for our 2022 One Injustice Gala!

Tickets are available for our 4th annual One Injustice Gala at the Heard Museum on March 25, 2022, from 5:30 to 8:30 PM. Arizona Justice Project requests [...]

We’re Back with the 2021 Inside Out Fitness Challenge for Justice!

The 2021 Inside Out Fitness Challenge for Justice is a virtual fundraising fitness challenge that supports the work of the Arizona Justice Project. See if you [...]

2021

2020 Annual Report
Bill gives wrongfully convicted new chance at freedom
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS SELECTS ARIZONA JUSTICE PROJECT AS 2021 EMIL GUMPERT AWARD RECIPIENT
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2020

COVID-19 Physical Office Closure Announcement
2019 Annual Report
The Tragic Death of George Floyd
Arizona Family Seeks Compassionate Release Of Incarcerated Man Stricken With MS, COVID-19
Innocent and Released: Now What?
Arizona Republic Op Ed
Larry’s Legacy: A Tribute to Larry Hammond
Wrongful Conviction Day 2020
Inside Out Fitness Challenge for Justice
Larry Hammond Day | September 24
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2019

2018 Annual Report
The Red Book Features Arizona Justice Project
Local group focuses on helping those wrongfully convicted regain their freedom
Plea deals are catch-22 for those like Tucson man who claims wrongful conviction
Free Community Event in Prescott Valley on April 5, 2019
Phoenix police roll out new body cameras
Seeking justice, overturning unlawful conviction cases: Arizona Justice Project works for release of those wrongfully convicted of crimes
Freedom Friday in Flagstaff – 7/12/2019
Movie Fundraising Event – 7/17/2019
Arizona Cardinals Team Up with Local Innocence Organization
October 2, 2019 – Wrongful Conviction Day
November 5, 2019 – AJP Alumni Happy Hour
November 23, 2019 – Ride for Justice!
December 3, 2019 – Holiday Card Party
Arizona Justice Project Client Granted Clemency After 50 Years in Prison
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2018

Aspey, Watkins & Diesel
2017 Annual Report
AZ Red Book Features One Injustice is One Too Many
New Arizona task force works to right wrongful convictions through hair evidence
NBA Voices Joins the Innocence Network
Ride for the Arizona Justice Project in El Tour de Tucson
2018 Wrongful Conviction Day
NBA Coaches Support the Innocence Network
2019 One Injustice is One Too Many
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2017

ASU students collaborate on solutions for successful inmate re-entry
2016 Annual Review
Eddie Collins is Home After 44 Years in Prison
Southwest of Salem
INNOCENCE CONFERENCE 2017
Tri-Valley Dispatch
Wrongful Conviction Day
One Injustice is One Too Many Dinner and Fundraiser
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2016

Un-making a murderer
2015: A Year to Remember in False Confessions
False Confessions Like Brendan Dassey’s Are Common Among Exonerated Juveniles
Sharing: ‘Making a Murderer’ shows that our justice system needs a healthy dose of humility
Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America
The $40/Hr Defense Lawyer: ‘Making A Murderer’ Attorney Dean Strang Discusses The Economics of Innocence
Supreme Court: Life sentences on juveniles open for later reviews
Dateline – Voices of the Exonerated
Exonerations averaged 3 per week in 2015—a record pace!
2015 – The National Registry of Exonerations
Prosecutor who sent innocent man to death row is disbarred
Court cases challenge ‘Shaken Baby’ diagnosis
Sharing: Prisoners Exonerated, Prosecutors Exposed
IN THE NEWS: Woman Exonerated After Serving 10 Years for Manslaughter Conviction
For Arizona’s wrongfully convicted, life after prison brings hardship and hope
TUCSON EVENT – JUBILIEE FOR JUSTICE, March 31, 2016, 6-9 pm
National Reentry Week, April 24-30, 2016
Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America – Won students at a Phoenix High School national recognition
Today – April 5, 2016 – is Arizona Gives Day! Please give!
Arizona Justice Project, fighting to get Arizona man out of prison after 43 years
Justice Served?
The Perspective of an Intern at Arizona Justice Project
Client Eddie Collins is Coming Home
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2015

This Friday – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – Carlos Arzate and the Kind Souls
A high-ranking Obama official just called for the “eradication” of bite mark evidence
Hurry Up and Wait for Justice: The Struggles of Innocent Prisoners
The staggering number of wrongful convictions in America
The Arizona Justice Project and Amazon Smile
Bitten by Experts via The Intercept
ASU criminologists examine why some parolees fail after release from prison
Can We Trust Crime Forensics? by Michael Shermer
SAVE THE DATE: September 18, 2015 – Book Signing for Bills, Quills, and Stills: An Annotated, Illustrated, and Illuminated History of the Bill of Rights
EVENT PICTURE: Nicki, Carlos Arzate, Louis Taylor, Lindsay Herf (left to right)
Sharing: Innocence Project Client – Alan Newton Exonerated!
Former juror in Glossip case tells Fox 25 their verdict would change now.
ASU Post-conviction Clinic – helping inmates who are innocent but have been convicted of a crime
Larry Hammond received the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit this past July in San Diego, pictured below!
You are invited to Arizona Justice Project’s Celebration of Wrongful Conviction Day 2015!
Video and acceptance speech of Larry Hammond at the 2015 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference – receiving the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit (July, 2015)
Criminally Yours: Lying To Get To The Truth, By Toni Messina
Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release, By Sari Horwitz, Washington Post
Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo, By Meagan Flynn, Houston Press
Arizona Horizon – ASU Post-Conviction Clinic and the Arizona Justice Project
Arizona Justice Project – And the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Program
The big paradox of justice in America, by Justin Roman
‘Huge Step’: FCC Slashes Costs of Prison Phone Calls
Would Obama recognize criminal justice reform if it stuck him in the eye?
CNN: Prison system is failing America
The Arizona Charitable Tax Credit and the Justice Project, Inc.
Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Public’s Perception of Criminal Defense
#GIVINGTUESDAY – December 1, 2015
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2014

Re-Cap of the 2014 Innocence Conference by Lesley Hoyt-Croft
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2012

Prosecutorial Misconduct and a DNA Exoneration in Texas
Injustice in Murder Cases
Wrong Convictions Spur Florida to Rethink Using Jail Informants
Perry v. New Hampshire and Eyewitness Testimony
Death Sentence in Delaware Overturned
Man Wins Supreme Court Appeal For New Trial
Justice: Prosecute Prosecutors?
Scientific Advances Cloud Past Arson Cases
Wrongfully Imprisoned 29 Years, Stanley Wrice Wins Second Chance
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2011

Arizona Murder Mystery: Guilt of Man in 1962 Killings Thrown into Question
Mother Cleared of Murder: 13 Years in Prison; Pathologist’s Faulty Testimony Led to Verdict
Shaken-baby Case will Rely on Forensics
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
New Jersey Supreme Court Issues Landmark Decision Mandating Major Changes in the Way Courts Handle Identification Procedures
Understanding the Causes of Wrongful Convictions
The Arizona Justice Project is Appearing Before the U.S. Supreme Court
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2010

Leveling the playing field for killers
Rockford Man Fights to Get his Brother out of Arizona Prison
New York Times: Governor Rebuffs Clemency Board in Murder Case
News About the Bill Macumber Case
Arizona Justice Project Lawyer Honored
Dead Wrong
Texan Imprisoned for Child Sex Assault Exonerated
Son Confronts Brewer over Clemency Decision
New Film Recalls ’70 Pioneer Hotel Fire
DNA Testing Proves Gilbert Man’s Innocence in 2003 Rape
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2009

The Arizona Justice Project names Marilyn Seymann as Director of Development
Interview with Former Executive Director Carrie Sperling
The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest Honors The Justice Project
New Book “True Stories of False Confessions” Contains Accounts of Some of the Most Critical Accounts of False Confessions
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2008

The Arizona Justice Project Names Its First Executive Director
The Arizona Justice Project Has a New Home
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