Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
False Allegations Hub · 20 October 2026
A UBC creative writing chair was fired over allegations a retired judge found unsubstantiated. Jonathan Kay on the CanLit mobbing, as Galloway's libel trial runs.
Queensland's DPP has dropped its EMDR safeguards and NSW may follow. The science on therapy and memory is unsettled, and a pre-therapy record protects everyone.
20 October 2026
A Medina, New York, couple told police a stranger assaulted their 14-month-old child. Police found the named suspect was out of state and say the father caused the injuries.
19 October 2026
A Tampa realtor says she commented on a stranger's engagement post implying he was cheating with her, to drive traffic to her page. TikTok users called it defamation.
19 October 2026
A Suffolk County jury awarded former MIT professor David Sabatini $6 million after finding that Kristin Knouse, a younger colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct, had defamed him, and rejected her counterclaims.
17 October 2026
District Attorney Ashley Welch took the incredibly rare step this week of overturning a prior conviction against a man now known to be innocent.
17 October 2026
The point in the Cornell case is not that women lie; most do not. But every accusation is a claim, and claims must be tested, argues Jay Beecher.
16 October 2026
Two former federal prosecutors set out to debunk an innocence claim and concluded the opposite. Gilbert King, Leo Schofield and The Prosecutors, in conversation.
16 October 2026
A New Mexico judge has dismissed an indictment against actor Timothy Busfield that accused him of criminal sexual contact with a child, citing prosecutorial misconduct and errors that undermined the grand jury process.
16 October 2026
Cooley Law School marked the 25th anniversary of the Cooley Innocence Project, Michigan's only post-conviction DNA innocence organization, with a gala bringing together exonerees, students and advocates including Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez and Dan Slepian.
15 October 2026