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Media Coverage of RIJ/OIP Activities

In July 2006, amendments to Ohio's DNA testing statute went into effect. The amended statute lowered the burden an inmate needs to meet in order to receive DNA testing. The Ohio Innocence Project, in conjunction with the Office of the Ohio Public Defender and the Columbus Dispatch, reviewed the more than 300 cases that had been rejected under the old standard and selected the 30 cases that the OIP believes meet the new standard. DNA Diagnostics Center, Inc. (commonly referred to as DDC), a private and highly accredited lab based in Fairfield, Ohio, generously offered to perform testing pro bono for those 30 cases if a court approved testing. The Columbus Dispatch has continued to follow and report on the progress of these cases in its series "Test of Convictions."

General

• Rick Armon, Innocent After Proven Guilty - Ohio Innocence Project Fights to Free Wrongly Convicted Inmates Through Detective Work, DNA, Beacon Journal, Jun. 18, 2006
• Sara Pearce, The Pictures of Innocence, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 22, 2006.
• Tony Cook, The Art of Saving the Damned - ETC teams with the Innocence Project, City Beat, May 11, 2004.
• Ari Bloomekatz, UC Law Center Gets $1 Million - Institute will be Renamed After Its Benefactors, the Rosenthals, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 7, 2004.
• UC Law Successfully Launches Ohio Innocence Project, Aug. 18, 2003.
• 9News, Scheck Launches Ohio Innocence Project at UC, WCPO News, Nov. 22, 2002.
• Sheila McLaughlin, Innocence Project Eyeing UC Home, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 11, 2002.
• Carey Hoffman, UJI Host Bono and Chris Tucker to Speak on AIDS Crisis, Dec. 6, 2002.

14th Amendment

• Ray Wood and Barry M. Horstman, Ohio to Correct 'Crazy History' State to Re-Ratify 14th Amendement, Cincinnati Post, Sept. 10, 2003.

Chris Bennett

• Law Students, DNA Evidence Help Free Man From Prison, CNN.com, May 15, 2006
• Cantonrep.com, After Four Years, Plea Deal Frees Paris Twp. Man, May 14, 2006.
• Jay Warren, Ohio Innocence Project Frees Another Man, 9 News, May 14, 2006.
• Sharon Coolidge, UC Group Frees Ohio Inmate Innocence Project Exonerates Second Wrongly Convicted, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 24, 2006.
• Karen Farkas, Court Lets Inmate Withdraw Guilty Plea in Amnesia Case, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Jan. 24, 2006.
• Shane Hoover, Man in Fatal Crash Wins Appeal to Withdraw Plea, Canton Repository, Jan. 24, 2006.
• Phil Trexler, Appeals Court Orders New Trial In Fatal Crash DNA Evidence Indicates That Convicted Man, 30, Was Passenger, Not Driver, In 2001 Wreck In Stark, Akron Beacon Journal, Jan. 24, 2006.
• Sharon Coolidge, Students Get New Evidence - Was Jailed Man Driver or Passenger?, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Mar. 10, 2004.
• Sharon Coolidge, Ohio's Innocence Project Takes First Cases - Inmate Denies Driving in Fatality, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 18, 2003.

Death Row

• Sharon Turco, UC Group Urges Halt to Executions - Law Student Study of Death Row in Ohio Finds Unfairness, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 17, 2003.

Clarence Elkins

• "Dateline NBC" featured the work of the Ohio Innocence Project on Sunday, March 11, 2007. Watch the entire episode online.
• Deborah Rieselman, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Magazine, Ohio attorney general commends UC-based Ohio Innocence Project
• Clarence Elkins and Ohio Innocence Project Get National Exposure
• Sara Pearce, Students Fight to Free the Innocent, Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 22, 2006.
• Shane Hoover, Elkins Files Complaint for Wrongful Imprisonment, Canton Repository, Jan. 20, 2006.
• CNN, Larry King Live Interview with Clarence Elkins Who was Falsely Imprisoned For Murder, Rape, December 26, 2005 ET.
• Jan Kennedy, Elkins Goes to Church, Canton Repository, Dec. 19, 2006.
• Cantonrep.com, More Than Drama, This is Justice, Dec. 19, 2005.
• Cantonrep.com, Murder Case Builds, Dec. 18, 2005.
• Brett Reed, A Happy Homecoming for Elkins, Canton Repository, Dec. 18, 2005.
• Shane Hoover, A Happy Homecoming for Elkins, Canton Repository, Dec. 17, 2005.
• Cantonrep.com, Quotes from the Elkins Case, Dec. 16, 2005.
• Shane Hoover, Elkins Walks from Prison, Canton Repository, Dec. 16, 2005.
• Shane Hoover, Elkins Freed, Canton Repository, Dec. 15, 2005.
• Paul E. Kostyu Copley, Attorney General Asks Taft to Grant Elkins a Reprieve, Canton Repository, Dec. 14, 2005.
• Shane Hoover, DNA Could Clear Man Convicted of Murder, Canton Repository, Dec. 10, 2005.
• Laura A. Bischoff, State May Renew Iinmates' Rright to DNA Test, Dayton Daily News (date not published).
  

Environmental Law

• Stephanie Dunlap, Pollution is a Crime - Activists Find a Creative Way to Protect Air Quality, City Beat, May 15, 2004.
• Kevin Aldridge, City's Clean Air Act Targets Polluters, The Cincinnati Enquirer, May 6, 2004.
• Carey Hoffman, Research By UC Law Students May Help Clean Up Dirty Air Problem, Apr. 30, 2004.
• Dan Klepal, Cincinnati May Restart Air Nuisance Efforts, The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 30, 2004.

Racial Slurs

• Josh Flannery, Helen Prejean Lecture: Trying to Stop the Killing, City Beat, June 11, 2003.
• Shelley Davis, Bill Would Erase Race Terms From Law, Enquirer Columbus Bureau, June 3, 2003.
• Jordan Gentile, Ohio Senate Passes Bill to Remove Offensive Language from Lawbooks, Enquirer Columbus Bureau, June 3, 2003.
• Removing a Racist Stain, Cincinnati Post, Sept. 17, 2003.

Gary Reece

• Freed Inmate Visits Law School that Helped Get Him Released, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Feb. 25, 2005.
• Channel 5 Cincinnati, Wrongly Imprisoned Man Comes Home Reece Released After 25 Years Behind Bars, Feb. 23, 2005.
• Cleveland.com, Man Released After 25 Years in prison, Feb. 22, 2005.
• Carey Hoffman, Law Students' Investigations Lead to First Filing by Ohio Innocence Project, March 10, 2004.
• Carey Hoffman, Ohio Innocence Project Takes Case to Court for First Time on Oct. 1, Sept. 29, 2004.
• Roy Wood, UC Law Students Convince Board: Man is Innocent, Cincinnati Post, Dec. 18, 2004.
• Innocence Project Wins Freedom For Innocent Man, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 15, 2004.
• Roy Wood, Not guilty? UC Law Students Reviewing Inmates' Cases, Cincinnati Post, Sept. 17, 2003

Trina's Laws

• Sharon Coolidge, Civil Law Change Sought - Past Verdicts Not Admissible, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 7, 2003.