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To Gov. Taft (or current Governor) of Ohio:

We, the undersigned, petition Gov. Taft (or current Governor of OH) to grant clemency to Ohio inmate Keenya Curry, on the following grounds:

Keenya Curry was wrongfully convicted. Her defense attorney has signed an affidavit swearing he did not provide her with appropriate defense or counsel. Ms. Curry is innocent of the charges against her resulting in her current imprisonment. The charges and defenses are as follows:

Federal judges refused to throw out the case of a man wrongly jailed 22 years.
By Emilie Lounsberry
Inquirer Staff Writer

A federal appeals court has refused to throw out a civil-rights lawsuit brought by former Pennsylvania death row prisoner Nicholas Yarris, who spent 22 years behind bars until after a long-sought DNA test cleared him of a Delaware County rape and murder.

Yarris, now 45 and living in England, sued Delaware County after his 2004 release, contending that prosecutors and detectives destroyed evidence pointing to the real killer, manufactured evidence against him, and thwarted his demands for DNA testing.

The lawsuit is one of a growing number of suits filed across the country by defendants who were freed as a result of DNA testing after spending years in prison.

Got a call from Martin Draughon tonight from the Limestone County Jail.  He is the man who walked off death row after pleading to a 40-year sentence.  Martin had done 20 years so was released on parole.  He went to death row because the Houston Police Crime Lab "experts" lied and said that a shot Martin fired into the air was deliberately shot right into a man.  Finally an independent and real expert showed that the bullet ricochetted and wasnt fired directly into the man who unfortunately died.  Martin was out from August 25 until he was re-arrested on September 12 on false charges and lies by his parole officer, Jim McKee, in Livingston, Texas.

THE photograph on Susan Hamilton's mantelpiece is of a strikingly pretty, long-haired, smiling teenager. Captured on a sunny day out at Edinburgh Zoo, she is grinning broadly, her head thrown back and her hand stretching towards the camera in a cheeky wave.

Nearby is another photograph: it is the same girl, much younger but still smiling, all dressed up for a special occasion, her arms thrown around her big sister.