Category Archives: Blogs by Art

 Innocent and Incarcerated: 5500 Days and Counting- The Case of Rodney K. Stanberry April 16, 2012 ‎Rodney K. Stanberry is in year 16, week 4 of a 20 year prison sentence. By the end of week 4, he will have … Continue reading →

Rodney K. Stanberry- 15 Years and Counting On March 25th, 2012 Rodney K. Stanberry begins his 16th year in prison for crimes he did not commit. On March 24th, 1997, Rodney K. Stanberry became an inmate housed in the Alabama … Continue reading →

March 10, 2012  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVURKsGoMI   What Would You Do? What would you do if you worked for a district attorney’s office and discovered a possible wrongful conviction case? What would you do if you are the district attorney and you … Continue reading →

February 12, 2012    78 Years- Happy Birthday to Rodney K. Stanberry’s Father  Today, Rodney’s father celebrates his 78th birthday.  As you can imagine, there isn’t a day that goes by when he doesn’t yearn to spend the day with … Continue reading →

Moore may not have cried when Rodney was hauled off to prison or by the fact that he is still in prison-nearly 15 years and counting- for crimes he did not commit, but he did confess and unlike Johnson, he did not wait until after Rodney’s trial. Granted, he had no idea that the Mobile DA’s office wasn’t concerned with him, or the person who shot the victim, or anyone else, but he did his part in the pursuit of justice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEVURKsGoMI

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The Confession That the Jury Never Heard- The Case of Rodney K. Stanberry     http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/us/michael-mermel-a-prosecutor-who-challenged-dna-tests-will-resign.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share   First of all, the link above demonstrates what can happen when the media engage in investigative reports. The original piece is entitled “The … Continue reading →

November 22, 2011  Justice is Denied, When Justice is Delayed: Holding District Attorneys Accountable   http://www.statesman.com/opinion/bar-must-act-forcefully-in-pursuit-of-justice-1965320.html?printArticle=y This is a very good editorial written by staff at The Statesman that one would love to see in the Mobile Press Register.  Many of … Continue reading →

 (http://www.lagniappemobile.com/) This is the first of two posts that I will post on the Free Rodney Stanberry blog this week. This one is impromptu and I am writing it after reading Lagniappe’s latest edition at 4am in the morning, which includes as its … Continue reading →

Blog Entry: October 21, 2011  If you want some insight into what it is like to fight for someone who is wrongfully convicted every single day, here it is. You read newspapers often looking for cases about wrongful convictions, articles … Continue reading →

 August 11, 2011  The Criminal and the Prosecutor  After reading John Grisham’s book The Confession and Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson-Cannino’s book Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, I’ve been thinking about the similarities between a criminal who … Continue reading →