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 [...]
As a defense attorney, do you have a post-conviction case involving digital evidence? Find out what impact new technology can have. The Digital Evidence Innocence Initiative seeks to [...]
In 2000, teenager Vernon Horn was convicted for a January 1999 robbery and murder at a New Haven, CT neighborhood convenience store. The primary evidence allegedly linking Vernon Horn [...]
Digital Evidence, just like DNA evidence can prove innocence. And just like DNA evidence, it’s imperative to know how to locate the sources of digital evidence. On May 5, [...]
The Case of Anthony Christiana A photo located on a cell phone that had been taken 14 hours after a murder was the key in exonerating a man of [...]
New Haven, CT man who served 17 years in prison for murder and robbery was freed back on April 25, 2018 after he was exonerated by cellphone records. Read [...]
Locked cell phones that were at one time inaccessible can now be unlocked using the latest digital forensic technology. There is often a lag time between the creation of [...]
Google Timeline, launched in 2015, is a feature that contains location history and can establish that a user was located at a particular place and time. Google Timeline is [...]
Finding New Evidence from Third-Party Mobile Apps with the Latest Technology At the beginning of 2019, the Google Play store had approximately 2,100,000 applications for Android and the iTunes [...]
Advances in digital forensic technology provides a deeper access to mobile device data. New technology can extract deleted data from cell phones that were previously inaccessible. It is important [...]