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Baumgartner, POLI 203 Spring 2016 Framing Reading: Radelet and Borg, Baumgartner DeBoef Boydstun April 11, 2016 Catching Up My class on traffic stops for Fall 2016 was cancelled. Ill just be teaching POLI 421 on Framing. Instead

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Baumgartner, POLI 203 Spring 2016

Framing Reading: Radelet and Borg, Baumgartner DeBoef Boydstun April 11, 2016

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Catching Up

  • My class on traffic stops for Fall 2016 was
  • cancelled. I’ll just be teaching POLI 421 on

Framing.

  • Instead of the traffic stops class, I’m going to

team-teach a “super course” on diversity with

  • Profs. Sharon P. Holland (American Studies /

AAAD) and Jennifer Ho (English / Comp Lit / Asian-American Studies). Large lecture, Spring 2017, open to all, covering lots of issues relating to race, gender, multiculturalism. No course number yet, but it will be in Spring 2017. All three of us will teach it.

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Tonight’s speakers: Jim Coleman, Jamie Lau

  • https://law.duke.edu/news/wrongful-convictions-

clinic-client-freed-after-serving-nearly-24-years- crime-he-didnt-commit/

  • Howard Dudley freed just about 2 weeks ago

after 24 years.

  • LaMonte Armstrong, others have come from their

work.

  • They can also discuss the “brutal triage” of

innocence claims – they have to pick and choose.

  • So come with your questions.
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Today’s guest at 4:10 or so

  • Elizabeth Hambourger, Staff Attorney, CDPL
  • She coordinates visitors and correspondents

for all NC death row inmates, but can also answer your questions.

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The Rise of the “Innocence” Frame

Includes: Innocence; Evidence; System-is-Broken; Mention of the Defendant

20 40 60 80 100 120 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

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The “Net Tone” of NYT Coverage

  • 120
  • 100
  • 80
  • 60
  • 40
  • 20

20 40 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 Pro-Death Penalty Stories Minus Anti-Death Penalty Stories

Shows number of pro- minus number of anti-death penalty stories per year

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  • 40
  • 30
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  • 10

10 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

Pro- Stories Minus Anti- Stories

Net Tone from Readers’ Guide

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Innocence Frame: NYT vs. Other Major Papers

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004

New York Times Average of Boston Globe, Chicago Sun Times, Denver Post, Houston Chronicle, LA Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Seattle Times, and Washington Post

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Innocence Frame: NYT vs. Houston Chronicle

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004

New York Times Houston Chronicle

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Exonerations over Time: No big bump, but 158 as of today. (Over 1,700 including non-death sentence cases)

40 80 120 160 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013

Yearly (left axis) Cumulative (right axis)

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Lexis Nexis hits on “exonerations”

50 100 150 200 250 300 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005

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News Coverage of Individual Exonerations: Grows over time.

Wilbert Lee Freddie Pitts Delbert Tibbs Alejandro Hernandez Rolando Cruz Anthony Porter Earl Washington Aaron Patterson 50 100 150 200 250 300 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005

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Mention the Victim: pro-DP story.

64% 27% 36% 73% The Victim (640) The Defendant (443)

Pro-Death Penalty Anti-Death Penalty

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From Victim to Defendant

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10 20 30 40 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

Stories Mentioning Victim Characteristics Minus Stories Mentioning Defendant Characteristics

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A chronology of innocence

  • 1983 Centurion Ministries
  • 1985 MacArthur Justice Center, U Chicago Law
  • 1988 Scheck and Neufeld start working on DNA
  • 1990 DPIC created
  • 1992 Scheck and Neufeld create Innocence Project, Cordozo

School of Law

  • 1992 In Spite of Innocence published
  • 1992-2000 80 more innocence projects created
  • 2000 Ill. Gov George Ryan declares moratorium after

revelations of torture in Chicago, false confessions and exonerations.

  • 2003 Gov. Ryan commutes the sentences of all 163 Ill. Death

row inmate, and grants pardons of innocence to another 4.

  • 2007 NY, NJ abolish; 2009 NM; 2011 IL; 2012 CT; 2013 MD;

2015 NE. All but NY by vote in the legislature.

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  • How do frames change: organization, social
  • movements. Think of police violence. Think
  • f gay rights. Frames don’t just change;

someone pushes the new frame and fights a battle to change the culture.

  • This year’s meeting of the Innocence Project:

160 exonerees, lots of attorneys and staff:

  • http://www.ksat.com/web/ksat/news/innoce

nce-network-conference-focuses-on-freeing- wrongfully-convicted-inmates

  • http://innocencenetwork.org/networkconfere

nce/

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Organizations, Social Movements, and Frames

  • Think of police violence.
  • Think of gay rights.
  • Frames don’t just change; someone pushes

the new frame and fights a battle to change the culture.

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A mature movement

  • This year’s meeting of the Innocence Project:

160 exonerees, lots of attorneys and staff:

  • http://www.ksat.com/web/ksat/news/innoce

nce-network-conference-focuses-on-freeing- wrongfully-convicted-inmates

  • http://innocencenetwork.org/networkconfere

nce/