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Public Exoneration
If you're a wrongly convicted innocent, where do you go if the Innocence Project declines to review your viable claim?
Appellate Process
Your innocence gets overlooked by the biases built into the adversarial judicial process.
Innocence Project
Your innocence is better appreciated, but forced to fit into the adversarial judicial process.
Public Exoneration
Your innocence gets heralded outside their legalistic blind spots, compelling the courts to respond.
1. Your estimated innocence score
This service is for those who have demonstrated their actual innocence using the Estimated Innocence Form. You can download your own copy here.
2. Your public innocence profile
This service works best when your viable claim of actual innocence is profiled on the Unexonerated page. Check it out for yourself right here.
3. Your public exoneration in 5 phases
This engaging alternative to the adversarial legal approach has yet to be fully tested. It will be tested by the designer, a wrongly convicted innocent.
Public Exoneration is a type of problem-solving "wellness campaign". The innocence claimant, or their proxy representative, is served by a professional need-responder, which is a new kind of professional. They guide the process.
Instead of serving the law as lawyers do, or championing one party against another as the role of attorney does, the professional need-responder helps you resolve each other's inflexible needs as a way to solve the problem of wrongly convicting the innocent.
Instead of helping you to change your cognition and behavior, or trying to ease your emotional pain, as psychotherapists do, the professional need-responder helps you solve the persisting problem of the wrongful conviction, which causes the emotional pain.
The professional need-responder helps you address problems occurring at four different levels. The Public Exoneration wellness campaign addresses each level in each of its phases.
While this service cannot guarantee it can persuade the court or prosecutor to officially exonerate the client, it can assure you that if all affected needs get properly addressed, it will significantly move the needle toward full exoneration of the wrongly convicted innocent client.
To get a quick idea of what the program looks like, click each tab below to learn about each of the five phases. To see one in action, scroll down below.
FIT
A preliminary phase to prepare the way
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Invite supporters
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Get prepared
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Meet your service provider
Start by checking if this unique service is a good fit for you. Can the innocence claimant lead this effort themselves? Or should they delegate the leading role to another?
Spread the costs early by inviting friends and family to back your wellness campaign. For free for them to merely follow. Or $4.99 per week for them to participate. Or $14.99 each week to get hem centrally involved.
Get oriented to how this service operates. Connect with others exploring this alternative. Learn how this process takes a pioneering approach toward exoneration.
Meet the professional need-responder. First through texting. Then in person online. No financial commitment for the first thirty days.
Two types of Public Exoneration
Public Exoneration offers two types of wellness campaigns:
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Custodial. For those still in prison or under parole or probation. The innocence claimant assigns a proxy with power of attorney to represent their interests.
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Noncustodial. For those discharged from prison or never sentenced to prison. The innocence claimant typically represents their own interests.
Would you like to see a Public Exoneration in action?
The best way to learn about a public exoneration is to follow one as it occurs. It is free to follow. Go to the Unexonerated page. Browse through the Innocence Profiles. Pick one you see is similar to the case you support. Then click the button to follow the campaign.
Clicking the button opens this Exoneration Support form.
1. Select whom to support.
2. Select the 'follow' level.
3. Provide your name & email.
4. Click the Submit button.
Check your inbox for directions.
Follow developments
Public Exoneration is being developed by Steph Turner, cohost to the Need-Response podcast. Steph will share developments of this new program in episodes published every other Wednesday. Listen along as Steph tests the program, who also is a wrongly convicted unexonerated innocent.
Start your own Public Exoneration
When ready to start your own Public Exoneration problem-solving initiative, click the Select button below. Choose when you want to start. The first thirty days are free, to give you time to invite backers to help cover the cost in a crowdfunded format.
NOTE: Price and options may change as we grow the service to better fit your needs and the needs of others.
Need-Response
Public Exoneration
199.99
Every month
Solve your stubborn problem of overlooked innocence by mutually resolving needs
Valid until canceled
30 day free trial
Why charge any money for this?
"Why isn't this free?" you may wonder. Why should you pay for a service to try to undo something that someone else caused? Fair enough.
Charging you a fee keeps us accountable to serving your specific interests. You have little say over innocence lawyers or court appointed lawyers who provide their services pro bono. Their accountability tends to shift toward those who fund their services, instead of remaining accountable to you. Besides...
this is far cheaper than hiring a lawyer!
By contrast, you and your team can hold the professional need-responder accountable because you and your team directly pays for the service. Spreading the costs to your growing support team ensure there are more people to whom we remain accountable. We think of this more as your investment in improved outcomes, not some legal expense.
Besides, as others support your cause, they receive benefits along the way. They improve their responsiveness to needs like yours. With public exoneration, we all help each other to reach more of our lives' potential. We all learn to love each other more, to honor the needs of others as our own. Is that not worth $200 each month?
Your freedom is worth far more than that!