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Article: Placebo studies

This article consists of what exactly a placebo study/effect is and what is accomplishes/should accomplish. It is essentially a substance of no true value when conducting an experiment.

Northern California Innocence Project

The Northern California Innocence Project focuses on lending a helping hand to unfortunate innocent individuals who have been placed in jail/prison. The program is vital to those less fortunate and many times minorities because of how corrupt the system can be. Having educated individuals who know the law is essential to those in those unfortunate predicaments. The system more times than none is used in unrighteous manners- used against the people.

I selected this article particularly due to the immense impact it has on people that look like me in my community (black and brown peoples) and innocent people who have their whole lives to live in general. If the law can place an individual in jail with nothing but mere speculation, that person should without any doubt have the right to fight the case. A person should not under any circumstances be placed into prison or jail anyhow without the adequate evidence. The Northern California Innocence Project does that very necessary job of ensuring that those innocent peoples' rights are served properly as they should be, they get a trial, and that the innocent eventually get released for false accusations of crimes they didn't commit. This project itself is necessary and the article to make people everywhere aware of what's happening in the world is vital and that is why I chose this article to contribute to. Similar situations occur commonly around the globe which I will implement that information to my stub, as well as articles revolving around similar information.

Academic Article: The North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission: Uncommon Perspectives Joined By A Common Cause (Law Journal)

The information within the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission correlates with the information within my article Northern California Innocence Project due to the fact that they both focus in on cases in which people are proclaiming to be and most times are innocent of what they are being convicted of. Cases of innocent individuals cases, what went wrong in each conviction, and how each conviction was overturned are all pieces of information and are sources that I can utilize to contribute to my stub. Outline


 * 1) Northern California Innocence Project
 * 2) Origins of the project, background on founders, and mission statement.
 * 3) *Wrongdoings of the criminal justice system. *Steps necessary to making change in the lives of the wrongfully convicted. *Goals moving forward in making a trial.
 * 4) The North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission Law Journal, Washington Post, Cases with innocent individuals wrongfully convicted

Main Focus: Individuals from varying backgrounds, areas, racial statuses, sexual orientation, and other socially separating constructions are being wrongfully convicted of crimes they have not committed. This for starters is incredibly alarming due to the fact that if they are innocent there should be multiple things working in their favor to avoid doing time for no reason. If an individual is innocent, no evidence or incoherent 'evidence' would be available, therefore the conviction itself should not be made. Even with that being said, they are still made. Moving forward DNA tests of the evidence should be in place in order to prove an individual's innocence. However, this is where even larger problems surface. Innocent wrongfully convicted individuals whom have been wrongfully imprisoned aren't granted DNA tests to scientifically prove their innocence, let along a trial to fight the case.

'''This is really interesting information, but I am not sure how it connects to the existing page (NCIP). Also, you will need to add citations for this information before posting, and make sure it is not repeating information available on another page. (Dr. Manley)'''