The Ohio Innocence Project teamed up with the Cincinnati Opera to create an opera based on the lives of six exonorees to broaden awareness about wrongful convictions. Professor Godsey’s book, Blind Injustice, was featured on the Television show, America’s Lawyers … Continue reading →
The College of Law announced Professor Mark Godsey as the 2018 recipient of the Harold C. Schott Scholarship Award. On September 26, Professor Godsey was recognized by the Ohio Council for the Social Studies, the state’s largest professional organization devoted … Continue reading →
Professor Mark Godsey’s book chapter “The Global Innocence Movement” is now in print as part of the book Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent (Cambridge 2017). More information about the book is available here: … Continue reading →
Professor Mark Godsey was recently appointed by Supreme Court of Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor to the Task Force to Examine Improvements to the Ohio Grand Jury System. Additional information is located at:http://fairborndailyherald.com/news/5965/wolaver-named-to-ohio-grand-jury-task-force. Recommendations are expected to be issued in … Continue reading →
Professor Mark Godsey’s book chapter, The Human Factor in Wrongful Convictions Across National Borders, was published in the book Understanding Wrongful Conviction: The Protection of the Innocent Across Europe and America (Wolters Kluwer 2015), edited by Luca Luparia, professor of … Continue reading →
The Ohio Innocence Project marked the launch of OIP-u, Ohio’s Collegiate Network of Innocence Advocates. The mission of OIP-u is to support the Ohio Innocence Project in its effort to free the innocent and prevent wrongful conviction by educating the … Continue reading →
Mark spoke at an international innocence conference in Dublin, Ireland in June. His talk was on the international expansion of the Innocence Movement. Mark and exoneree Ricky Jackson spoke at an OIP fundraiser in Cleveland in June, and at the … Continue reading →
Mark moderated the international innocence session at the Innocence Network Conference in Orlando. He and OIP’s exonerees spoke at various functions around the State of Ohio on the issue of wrongful conviction of the innocent. In March, a Cleveland judge … Continue reading →
Mark spoke at various universities across Ohio with several hundred in attendance at each event. Mark spoke with exonerees Ricky Jackson and Dean Gillispie at Ohio University, with exonerees Robert McClendon and Dean Gillispie at the Ohio State University Moritz … Continue reading →
Several of Mark’s articles were cited: Miranda’s Final Frontier—The International Arena: A Critical Analysis of United States v. Bin Laden, and a Proposal for a New Miranda Exception Abroad, 51 Duke L.J. 1703 (2002), in Evan Ezray, Note, The Admissibility … Continue reading →