New Tech. New Evidence. New Hope. Locked or damaged phones were once dead ends for digital evidence. Devices returned from labs labeled “unreadable” or “inaccessible” often meant critical evidence [...]
Millions of Phones. Untapped Evidence.KaiOS Devices Hold Critical Data That Could Help Prove Innocence In post-conviction work, evidence that was once overlooked can become the key to justice. One [...]
Missed Digital Evidence? There’s a Way Back In Why Public Defenders Should Revisit Old iPhones in Serious Felony and Post-Conviction Cases In criminal defense, timing often dictates what evidence [...]
In today’s criminal justice landscape, digital evidence plays a central role in most cases—but it is rarely revisited after a conviction. At the Digital Innocence Initiative, we identified a [...]
Wrongful convictions don’t just happen—they result from structural failures. In the digital age, one of the most urgent and overlooked causes is the lack of technical capacity on the [...]
When I first used digital evidence to help a public defender, it was just one case. One person. One situation where something felt off—and where digital records told a [...]
Digital Innocence Initiative - Protect Justice Imagine being wrongfully accused or convicted, knowing proof of your innocence exists—but it's trapped in your Gmail account. Now, imagine Google plans to [...]
Wrongful Convictions Happen The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded thousands of exonerations since 1989 and recent studies estimate that 4% to 6% of individuals in U.S. prisons are wrongfully [...]
The use of digital evidence in criminal cases has evolved over time as technology has advanced and now constitutes 90% of current cases. This information aims to provide an [...]
More people have been wrongfully convicted due to digital evidence than most realize. Through our work with public defenders, we learned about the serious problem of wrongful convictions [...]