Patrice Gaines
Patrice Gaines is an author, journalist and co-founder of The Brown Angel Center, a program for women in jail in Charlotte, North Carolina. Gaines was a reporter at the Washington Post for sixteen years and a member of a reporting team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize.[1]
In her earlier years, Gaines was addicted to heroin and spent time in jail, a story she tells in her memoir (Laughing in the Dark, Anchor Books, 1995).[2] This experience gave her insight, so when Catherine Fuller was brutally murdered in Washington DC in 1984,[3] Gaines sensed something wrong in the police reports and prosecution’s story. In 1995 she got permission from the Post to do some follow-up reporting.[4] Her recreation of events got the attention of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP), which succeeded at reopening the case.[5] Prosecutors had not turned over exculpatory evidence in violation of Brady v. Maryland,[6] including evidence that crucial witnesses recanted their claims and that someone else had committed the crime.
The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017. However, the Court decided in favor of the prosecution, concluding 6-2 in Turner v. US that full information would not have changed the jury’s decision.[7] Justices Kagan and Ginsburg dissented.
Gaines has also become an advocate for Restorative Justice,[8] an effort to resolve crime that focuses more on healing than punishment. She relates it to her own efforts to find work with a criminal record,[9] and how close the Washington Post came to firing her, even after her awards and triumphs, decades after she found it necessary to lie about her record to get hired.
References
- ↑ "Patrice Gaines: Speaker, author, journalist & Co-founder, The Brown Angel Center". The Native Society. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
- ↑ LAUGHING IN THE DARK by Patrice Gaines | Kirkus Reviews. Search this book on
- ↑ "Murder of Catherine Fuller", Wikipedia, 2019-08-01, retrieved 2019-09-15
- ↑ Gaines, Patrice (April 22, 2012). "A Case of Conviction". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Dybdahl, Thomas (March 23, 2017). "The Catherine Fuller case: eight young men and the murder that sent them away for life". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 23, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2019. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Brady v. Maryland", Wikipedia, 2019-09-14, retrieved 2019-09-15
- ↑ "Turner v. United States". Oyez Project. Chicago-Kent College of Law. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-09-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Restorative justice", Wikipedia, 2019-09-02, retrieved 2019-09-15
- ↑ Gaines, Patrice. "An Insider's Take on Restorative Justice". Archived from the original on 2017-10-24. Retrieved 2019-09-15. Unknown parameter
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