{"id":528013,"date":"2022-02-24T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/?p=40754"},"modified":"2022-02-24T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T22:39:51","slug":"social-media-toolkit-new-yorkers-challenging-wrongful-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/24\/social-media-toolkit-new-yorkers-challenging-wrongful-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Toolkit: New Yorkers Challenging Wrongful Convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York has the third highest number of wrongful convictions in the nation. Yet New York\u2019s current law makes it nearly impossible for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/guiltypleaproblem.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">innocent people who pled guilty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and don&#8217;t have the benefit of DNA evidence, to challenge their convictions in court. This prevents people with credible innocence claims from getting relief in court. Right now, lawmakers have the opportunity to change this by passing A. 98\/S. 266, The Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act. This would fix the law to enable an authentic legal pathway to exoneration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, join us in a digital day of action by urging your lawmakers to support The Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act. Take action on March 2 by reposting the social media materials below.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hashtag<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: #NYdemandsjustice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Petition link<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/petitions\/new-yorkers-challenging-wrongful-convictions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Twitter copy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: New York\u2019s current law makes it nearly impossible for innocent people who pled guilty to get back into court without DNA evidence. Urge your lawmakers to support A.98\/S.266 to enable a legal pathway to exoneration #NYdemandsjustice: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3sZoKvI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3sZoKvI<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Text NEWYORK<\/strong> to 97016 to help us fight wrongful convictions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Instagram:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download images formatted for Instagram post &amp; Instagram Stories here.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download text graphics formatted for Instagram Post &amp; Instagram Stories here.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Suggested Instagram copy:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York has the third highest number of wrongful convictions in the nation \u2014 303 exonerations. Yet the current law makes it effectively impossible for innocent people who pleaded guilty to challenge their wrongful convictions in court without the benefit of DNA evidence. This prevents countless people with credible innocence claims from getting relief in court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right now, lawmakers have the opportunity to change this by passing A. 98\/S. 266, The Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act. This would fix the law to enable an authentic legal pathway to exoneration. Additionally, it would provide a right to post-conviction discovery, and establish a right to counsel for those with wrongful conviction claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use the link in our bio to tell your lawmakers to urge the Senate Codes Chairs to schedule a hearing for A. 98\/S. 266, The Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/social-media-toolkit-new-york-challenging-wrongful-convictions\/\">Social Media Toolkit: New Yorkers Challenging Wrongful Convictions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/\">Innocence Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/social-media-toolkit-new-york-challenging-wrongful-convictions\/\">Innocence Project<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has the third highest number of wrongful convictions in the nation. Yet New York\u2019s current law makes it nearly impossible for innocent people who pled guilty and don\u2019t have the benefit of<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/social-media-toolkit-new-york-challenging-wrongful-convictions\/\">Social Media Toolkit: New Yorkers Challenging Wrongful Convictions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/\">Innocence Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29600,4045,43889,2633,1892,43890,4696],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530295,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528013\/revisions\/530295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}