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Injustice Anywhere has a new online radio home on Spreaker. Please join us on Tuesday April 28 at 8 PM CDT, for our first show on the new format. Please visit our show page to listen in. All live shows will also be available on our show page archive. So if you miss the live broadcast, be sure to catch the podcast at your convenience. Be sure to tune in to our first show to hear more about our new online radio station.

In our debut episode, we will be discussing the Jamie Snow case with advocate Tammy Alexander. Jamie’s case will be back in Appellate Court on May 12. We will discuss the arguments that will be heard during the hearing and provide an overall update of the case.

The Committee To Free Jeff Havard has launched a t-shirt campaign to help support Jeff’s advocacy efforts. Please visit the teespring website and get your shirt today! Hoodies and fitted tees are also available! Jeff needs your help. This is a great way to show your support!

Jeff Havard currently sits wrongfully convicted on death row in Mississippi for the sexual assault and murder of his girlfriend’s six-month-old daughter. The truth is the infant slipped from Jeff’s arms while lifting her from the tub, causing her head to hit the toilet. New expert evidence supports Jeff’s claims.

The defense learned in January of 2014, 12 years after the conviction, that the prosecution’s expert had looked at tissue sections under a microscope and found definitively that there was no evidence of sexual assault. In a case where suspicion of sexual assault only arose when ER doctors and nurses noticed what they believed to be physical evidence of sexual abuse. Those microscopic findings were clearly exculpatory, and would have positively shown that the doctors and nurses had simply misinterpreted what they saw. The state withheld this evidence from the defense as well and failed to tell the doctors and nurses about it before they testified.

The infant’s death was a tragic accident, not a murder. Jeff Havard was sentenced to death for a crime that never happened. Jeff Havard is innocent. Your shirt order will benefit Jeff’s advocacy efforts.

You can learn more about this case at freejeffreyhavard.org.

Teespring: http://teespring.com/support-the-campaign-to-free-j

FREE JAMIE SNOW

What will be argued?

This time around, we are presenting “Brady” evidence. Which means evidence that was favorable to the defendant, but was withheld from him prior to trial. So what do we have?

Polygraph: This is actually a polygraph worksheet that was obtained through FOIA requests from supporters. The actual polygraph is Jamie Snow’s – 1994. In the notes on the worksheet, “Star witness” Danny Martinez says in reference to the suspect that Snow was not the person he saw.

This evidence was never turned over to Snow. In the state’s reply brief, they make a few very thin arguments. Read More »

KZTV.com

CORPUS CHRISTI –

Hannah Overton is a free woman!

The Nueces County District Attorney’s office decided to drop all charges against her.

Overton was convicted of capital murder in the poisoning death of her foster son Andrew Byrd in 2007.

She spent seven years in prison.

“She did gather her children around and I repeated to her the news that I just conveyed to you. And there was dead silence on the phone at first, and then she said…I said that means the case is over. That it’s finished. And the children cheered and she began to cry.”

Cynthia Orr, Hannah Overton’s attorney, described Overton’s reaction when she told her her case had been dismissed by Nueces County District Attorney Mark Skurka Wednesday night. Orr was quick to praise Skurka for his bold decision…when…she says…so many d-a’s prefer convictions. Read More »

Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger

In a unanimous decision made public Thursday, the Mississippi Supreme Court granted death row inmate Jeffrey Havard permission to request an evidentiary hearing since science on shaken baby syndrome has changed.

At trial, the state’s then-pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne testified that 6-month-old Chloe Britt died of “shaken baby syndrome.”

For decades, shaken baby syndrome was widely accepted, diagnosed through a triad of symptoms: subdural bleeding (blood collecting between the brain and the skull), retinal bleeding (bleeding in the back of the eye) and brain swelling.

In the years since, medical belief that these symptoms provided ironclad proof of homicide has begun to crumble with several studies raising doubts. Read More »

CBC’s the fifth estate is Canada’s premier investigative journalism show and often provokes discussion on important issues at a national level. Supporters of overturning Nyki’s wrongful conviction were thrilled at the fifth estate’s request to film an interview with Nyki at Grand Valley Prison last year.  Sadly the warden denied the fifth estate access despite granting media access to many other incarcerated people.  We want to let the fifth estate know that there is tremendous support for an investigative show about Nyki’s case even if she will not be allowed to appear on film. Read more on Change.org and please sign today»