New Rutgers initiative offers services and resources to NJ exonerees
Rutgers-Camden is launching the New Jersey Innocence Project to help residents who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and are now seeking exoneration. The project focuses the expertise of Rutgers faculty in law, forensic science, criminal justice and social work.
Jill Friedman, co-founder of the New Jersey Innocence Project and associate dean for pro bono and public interest at Rutgers Law School in Camden, said they are currently searching for an executive director for the project. However, they are not ready to accept inquiries from people who claim they were wrongfully convicted and are innocent. Hopefully, that will happen in the fall.
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Women s health care advocates are ramping up pressure on New Jersey lawmakers to advance a bill expanding access to abortion in the state, saying the U.S. Supreme Court s decision this week to take up a challenge to Roe v. Wade adds urgency to put a law in place.
But leaders in the legislature are in no hurry to move a bill, called the Reproductive Freedom Act, until after the November election when all 120 seats in the Senate and Assembly are on the ballot, according to two legislative sources.
While it might seem like a slam-dunk in the liberal Garden State to enact a law guaranteeing access to abortion, the Legislature has never passed a law legalizing it. Instead, New Jersey court decisions have said women can obtain abortions here.