There has been even more good stuff from The National Law Journal lately. In an article entitled, "Federal habeas corpus & actual innocence," Philip G. Cormier, Andrew Good, Barry C. Scheck and Harvey A. Silverglate discuss the many post-conviction roadblocks that has faced federal criminal defendant Jeffrey MacDonald, who has been pursuing an actual innocence claim based on DNA evidence.
It's a really interesting article and gives a lot of background about the MacDonald case, which I mentioned around here recently due to a Fourth Circuit decision in his favor.
Of course, I prefer the article's subtitle's reference to all of this as part of the "federal post-conviction system" (which is the proper way to describe 2255 motions) as opposed to the main title's "federal habeas corpus" (which is not an accurate description of a 2255 motion), but that's not really that important overall. The article is definitely worth a read.
And speaking of 2255 motions, I have written in the past about a 2255 motion filed in SDNY in the DiPietro case up in Westchester. A local paper in Westchester named Westchester Rising had a series of articles documenting the paper's belief that DiPietro is innocent. Now, the paper reports that a Hollywood producer is interested in potentially making a film about the case. As the paper says at the end of the article, "Stay tuned."
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