How Do You Deal With A Wrongful Conviction?
Dealing with a wrongful conviction is a difficult thing to handle once your sentence has been handed down. Despite the innovations of DNA and forensic technology, sometimes the evidence isn’t accurate and the court gets it wrong. Deal with your wrongful conviction by not giving up proving your innocence and getting your conviction appealed. Act fast before time runs out. Have your trial attorney file a motion of appeal within 30 days of your conviction. Include any new evidence such as newly discovered DNA evidence or a witness who wasn’t part of your original trial. Explain that if that evidence had been part of your first trial, you wouldn’t have been convicted. Choose a wrongful conviction attorney or local innocence project to represent your wrongful conviction appeal case. Go to Loevy & Loevy or the Innocence Project and learn about the organizations’ background in wrongful conviction cases before contacting them. Meet with a representative to decide who you want to defend your ap