Tagged with Griffith University Innocence Project

QCA graduate Sky Parra has won the inaugural BMG Legal Art Prize, which raises awareness of wrongful convictions in Australia.

After a 40-year teaching career, Griffith Law School student Kirk West continues to make a real difference in the lives of others. Immigrating to Australia from the US in 1974, Kirk worked in education before taking up a contract to help develop baseball in Alice Springs. Over the years he accepted teaching roles in Charters […]

Griffith University's Innocence Project has a new team of legal eagles ready to continue fighting miscarriages of justice.

Imagine being accused of a murder you didn’t commit and imprisoned for more than 20 years.

University-based Innocence projects contribute to the uncovering of wrongful imprisonment writes Lynne Weathered, Director of the Griffith University Innocence Program.

Why torture is an unreliable method of obtaining a confession and reasons contributing to false confessions are two of the topics to be discussed by former Queensland Police Service detective Rod Shelton in a presentation to Griffith Law School students this week. “The process of interviewing is an art and a science,’’ said Mr Shelton […]