On March 14, Mark, who serves as the faculty director of the College’s Ohio Innocence Project (OIP), and the OIP students and staff won the release of Bryant “Rico” Gaines, who served nine years of a life sentence for a murder he did not commit. You can read the details of the case in Bryant “Rico” Gaines to Walk Free Today in Ohio: Reflections on System Resistance to Innocence, The Wrongful Convictions Blog (Mar. 14, 2012).
Mark gave several speeches about the international expansion of the Innocence Movement at universities in the Netherlands and Italy. He also met with criminal law professors in France who are interested in exploring the creation of a legal clinic in France based loosely on the Innocence Project model.
Mark also gave a lecture via Skype to the members of the Irish Innocence Project on how to use DNA testing to prove innocence in complicated cases. He also spoke with exoneree, Roger Dean Gillispie, about wrongful convictions to a men’s group at a country club in Cincinnati, and moderated the debate at UC law school between Paul Butler and Mark Piepmeier titled Should Good People Become Prosecutors.
Mark’s article Reformulating the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 781 (2006), was cited in Rachel A. Harmon, The Problem of Policing, 110 Mich. L. Rev. 761 (2012); and Laurent Sacharoff, Miranda’s Hidden Right, 63 Ala. L. Rev. 535 (2012).
Mark was quoted in:
- Alan Johnson, DeWine Calls Legislation Unfair; He Wants Bill Revised to Allow Compensation for Wrongly Convicted, Columbus Dispatch 1B (Mar. 24, 2012);
- New Wrongful Convictions Blog Launched to Highlight International Issues, updates@uclaw (Mar. 2012);
- Alan Johnson, Kasich’s Policy Ideas Fill Budget Proposal; One Change Would Limit Payouts to Wrongly Convicted, Columbus Dispatch 1A (Mar. 21, 2012); and
- Public Invited to DNA Talk, Metro Herald (Dublin) 18 (Mar. 5, 2012).