David Edelstein is an AV® Peer Review Rated criminal defense attorney
representing clients in state and federal criminal matters across the State of Florida.

The Brooklyn district attorney is reviewing 50 murder cases assigned to an acclaimed homicide detective amid mounting questions about the officer?s tactics and the legitimacy of the convictions, the New York Times reports. Read more..

Seth Penalver was acquitted last year, 12 years after being sentenced to death in a triple murder case If he could talk to Gov. Rick Scott, Seth Penalver would have one simple question. Read more..

The number of cases in which police and prosecutors helped exonerate innocent defendants dramatically increased in 2012, according to a report released today by the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE)… Read more…

Former Miramar police officers, William Mantesta, George Pierson and Bill Guess are being sued in federal court in Fort Lauderdale. Attorneys for Anthony Caravella say they coerced the 15-year-old, who had an IQ of 67, into falsely confessing to a rape and murder in 1983. He spent nearly 26 years in prison before DNA testing [...]

A Chicago Tribune investigation found that Chicago police have long ignored voluntary standards for conducting polygraph exams, even as those methods and the examiners themselves have factored into cases costing the city millions of dollars in damages. At least five defendants – four of whom were charged with murder – have been cleared since 2002. [...]

There are ten factors that help explain why an innocent defendant may end up erroneously convicted rather than released, according to a new study from researchers at American University. Read more..

If you haven’t caught it yet, I highly suggest taking the time to see the new film from Ken Burns documenting the wrongful convictions of five black and Latino teenagers who were arrested and charged with brutally attacking and raping a white female jogger in Central Park. News media swarmed the case, calling them a ”wolfpack.”  The [...]

Kristine Bunch of Indiana was granted a new trial after 16 years in prison for the murder of her 3-year-old son and will not be tried again ? at least not for now, the Indianapolis Star reports. Read more..

According to Dallas Morning News a Texas man has now been declared innocent  after serving 30 years in an abduction, robbery and rape case.  He was cleared by DNA testing. “[W]ords won’t make up for what I lost,” said Cornelius Dupree Jr., 51. It’s hard to imagine what it must be like to sit in prison [...]