Life After The Exoneration Program

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Heather Weigand of the Life After Exoneration Program is featured in an exciting, exclusive, in-depth and inside interview with exoneree Timothy Atkins discussing

Headline Civil Rights News. After 20 years in prison for a killing that a key witness says he didn't commit, Timothy Watkins is a free man because of the tireless efforts of Heather Weigand and the Life After Exoneration Program. In light of recanted testimony, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael A. Tynan overturned Atkins' conviction and ordered his immediate release. Tynan was the trial judge in 1987 when Atkins was convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of robbery and sentenced to 32 years in prison.

Heather Weigand serves as the Life After Exoneration Program's Director of Client Services and New Programs. She began modeling policy and service provision in 2005 for the exonerated in the Western Region of the United States. Currently, her efforts are directed to developing and providing exemplary services to the exonerated in California and Texas. This includes delivery of a regional policy & service model that can be replicated in states with the highest population of exonerees. In conjunction with her co-director, she oversees the board building, development, fund raising, advocacy, public education and lobbying efforts for this unique grass roots organization. Heather incubated the very first "Council of the Wrongfully Convicted", an exoneree-led council and leadership program and still acts as its primary advisor.

The Life After Exoneration Program is the only national organization dedicated to helping survivors of wrongful conviction re-enter society and rebuild their lives. The Life After Exoneration Program is working to ensure that exonerees have access to badly needed services, and is helping to build a community of the exonerated. The Life After Exoneration Program is supporting policy reform on behalf of the exonerated.

Over 400 exonerees in our country have proven their innocence and been released from prison after having been convicted of crimes they did not commit. On average, they serve more than 12 years in prison before release.

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Heather Weigand: Program Director of Client Services and New Programs
Life After Exoneration
weigand@exonerated.org
www.exonerated.org
510-292-6010

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[NWKBricks1]

Excellent interview. Thanks for uploading this video.

[insiderexclusive]

Please send more information on Rodney Reed, and we will review it.

[LoveoKelsiaa443]

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[Anon2315]

If someone is wrongfully executed does the family get some kind of compensation and if they do how much do they get

[Zurround100]

if there was any justice in this world that guy would have been awarded several million dollars restitution by the state, maybe a million dollars per year to make it easier to rebuild whats left of his life. And it DISGUSTS me that some states have NO restitution laws and exonerated people sometimes cannot get work because they STILL have criminal records its fucking disgusting.

[marcelhammondea]

amazing in her skin-tight, S&M-like. I've watcher this movie free at Movie WATCHER . US

[rrhynes]

Correct. You never talk to police, if you're a suspect. Let them do all the talking. Just sit quietly and insist on council. However, if you're guilty of something really awful, like murder or rape, please hang yourself at your earliest convenience.

[mad4maddow]

Good reason not to talk to the police. Defense law 101...don't say anything to the police. Miranda rights say anything you say may be used against you, not that it may be used to exonerate you. If a cop testifies that you said something incriminating, that's considered valid testimony. If a cop were to testify that something you said would exonerate you, that is considered heresy.

Nice criminal justice system.

[SparkeyGreenberg]

Thank you so much for posting this. Please consider the case of Rodney Reed currently on Death Row in Texas, for a crime he did not commit. Please! Investicate his story.