Again question whether he actually committed. The popularity of making a murderer and the recent podcast series serial highlight questions about the accuracy of criminal convictions. Brianfarrell both of those have been so important in helping people see the complexities of the criminal Justice System. University of iowa law professor rian farrell is the head of the Innocence Project of iowa, a group of about 20 volunteers from around iowa examines cases of prisoners who claim they are innocent. Brian farrell i think that awareness of these issues is probably going to lead to an increase in people seeking assistance. To date the Innocence Project lf iowa hasnt exonerateteanyone. In fact, over the past 25 years there have only been 12 exonerations in iowa for crimes committed in these 7 counties. But state public defender adam gregg says exonerations could soon increase in iowa partly because of the fascination around documentarie s like making a murderer. And perhaps more importrttly,
Collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer to assess concussions and other injuries. The Senate Education Committee Approved the bill on an 86 Party Line Vote yesterday. Democrats approved it while republicans opposed. State senator from maquoketa and former High School Wrestling coach tod bowman spoke in favor of the bill, telling the Des Moines Register quote we are not covering every practice, but this is a step in the right direction where the most vulnerability occurs. Meteorologist Justin Gehrts has your first alert forecast, justin. We saw southern counties but now the anticipation of spring is taking over. Cloudy skies remain for the rest of the day, but the light snow has left with the exception of a couple flurries near the mississippi through early afternoon. Well have highs in the e wer to middle 30s. Mostly cloudy weather continues through tomorrow with highs in the lower 30s again. Well climb into the 40s on thursday, friday and saturday. We should see more s
Morning. Weve had a nice couple of days. But moisture from the south will build north overnight and arrive in central iowa with some scattered showers by afternoon and evening. A look at how much rain to expect tomorrow, coming up. Now on to the news of the day. Led to a shooting at a local fastfood chain. Authorities were called out to the mcdonalds on southwest state and oralabor road around 10 30 on saturday night and found two people shot. Stephanie moore joins us with an update. Steph . Police are still conducting interviews but say it appears some bad manners may have led to the shooting outside the mcdonalds. Police say when they arrived on the scene they found two people, 18 year old Justin Phongsavanh and 18 year old Nickolas Culver suffering from gun shot wounds. Both men were taken to the hospital by ambulance. Justin has since been released, but nickolas remains in serious but stable condition in the ic u. About thirty minutes after the shooting, 34 year old gabriel coco tu
Wasnt good science in iowas case, the division of criminal investigation is working with the wrongful convicted division, handing over at least 100 cases so far to Division Leader audrety mcginn. By one, where those error, well be contacting those inmates in prison were looking for going to be a long sentence, those are the serious crimes mcginn will go through every case and reexamine the evidence, and if errors are found, the division could pursue legal action. Were going to set up a systematic process to reveiw older cases and seek post conviction relief if the facts lead us in that direction but even if one person is found wrongly gregg know theyll be theres no better someone walks out of claire along with iowa dci, the Wrongful Conviction division is working with the Innocence Project of iowa and the midwest Innocence Project. And depending on the case, according to iowa law, if someone is found wrongly convicted and incarcerated, they could be given up to fifty Dollars Per Day th
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