Three people with unique involvements in overturning a wrongful conviction sat on a panel last week discussing a case they were all involved in. Aaron Michael Howard joined one of his attorneys, Moxila Upadhyaya of Venable LLP and former Metropolitan Police Department Detective James Trainum in discussing his case.

The panel was moderated by MAIP Executive Director Shawn Armbrust and hosted by the Washington College of Law.

You can watch the panel here.

Seven months after he was cleared of one of the three rapes he was convicted of, MAIP client Thomas Haynesworth now has the opportunity to prove yet again that he is innocent of a rape he was acquitted of nearly three decades ago.

A Richmond Circuit Court judge ordered the testing of DNA evidence found in the 1984 case, which remains unsolved.  Haynesworth was arrested in connection with a series of five rapes that occurred in Richmond during that time and was ultimately convicted of three and sentenced to 74-years in prison.  Haynesworth has always maintained his innocence in all five crimes, and suggested that notorious local serial rapist Leon Davis actually committed them. (more…)