National Center for Reason and Justice
fighting false accusations and wrongful convictions
Bob Chatelle and Emily Horowitz
Directors, National Center for Reason and Justice
Joseph Allen, July 2010
Photo Credit: James D’Entremont
Although most of the people wrongfully convicted in the daycare sex abuse panic of the 1980s/early 1990s have been exonerated, …
Bernard Baran was the first case sponsored by the NCRJ. After 22 hellish years, he was finally freed in 2006 and exonerated in 2009.
On April 17, 2012, Baran and his attorney, John Swomley, spoke before a criminal-justice class at …