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    The Fairbanks Four: hopeless innocence and the flawed system that escorted them to stagnant wrongful convictions

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    Author
    Hill, Meghan
    Keyword
    Judicial error
    Alaska
    Fairbanks
    Case studies
    Criminal justice, Administration of
    John Hartman Murder Trial, Fairbanks, Alaska, 1999
    Murder victims
    Alaska Innocence Project
    Hartman, John, 1982-1997
    Frese, George C., 1977-
    Roberts, Marvin L., 1977-
    Pease, Kevin W., 1978-
    Vent, Eugene G., 1979-
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10011
    Abstract
    This project explores factors that lead to wrongful convictions with a case study from 1997 on the sensitive claim of innocence on the Fairbanks, Alaska community: The John Hartman murder. As the representative model throughout the project, this sexual assault and murder case of the accused Fairbanks Four will be examined. Through a multi-disciplinary scope, the topic will be approached through numerous accounts of research, interviews, and field-work. By dissecting the Fairbanks Four case and applying it to the research of the burdensome appeals process, the supporting factors are apparent in the practices that lead to wrongful convictions. In the synopsis, methods that lead to convictions, as well as the inconsistent wavering time table, will be disclosed. Further, counter methods to tactics currently practiced and how to avoid time delays of such a rigorous and often hopeless process will also be included. With underdog defense organizations such as The Innocence Project and The Alaska Innocence Project growth and expansion, we increasingly see success in the overturn of wrongful convictions throughout the United States. This paper will argue and highlight the systemic faults in the current convictions process and identify recommendations to modify such faults in relation to the case study of the Fairbanks Four.
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    Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2014
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Other
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    Master's Projects
    Master's Projects (Justice)

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