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 threw out the convictions of three men who OIP has represented for more than a decade.
Several of Mark’s articles were cited:
- Reliability Lost, False Confessions Discovered, 10 Chap. L. Rev. 623 (2007), in Brandon L. Garrett, Contaminated Confessions Revisited, 101 Va. L. Rev. 395 (2015).
- She Blinded Me with Science: Wrongful Convictions and the “Reverse CSI Effect”, 17 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 481 (2011) (with Marie Alou), in Sabra Thomas, Comment, Addressing Wrongful Convictions: An Examination of Texas’s New Junk Science Writ and Other Measures for Protecting the Innocent, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 1037 (2015).
Several of Mark’s columns in The Huffington Post were also cited:
- For the First time Ever, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man (Nov. 8, 2013), in Cadene A. Russell, Comment, When Justice is Done: Expanding a Defendant’s Right to the Disclosure of Exculpatory Evidence on the 51st Anniversary of Brady v. Maryland, 58 How. L.J. 237 (2014).
- Breaking: With Today’s Release of the San Antonio Four, Texas Now on the Cutting Edge of Efforts to Free the Innocent (Nov. 18, 2013), in Sabra Thomas, Comment, Addressing Wrongful Convictions: An Examination of Texas’s New Junk Science Writ and Other Measures for Protecting the Innocent, 52 Hous. L. Rev. 1037 (2015).