Karen Boes has returned to court for new evidentiary hearings regarding her 2003 murder conviction. Boes was found guilty of setting the house fire that killed her daughter but has long maintained her ...

Boes was initially denied a new trial in 2023, after Judge Karen Miedema (who is overseeing the hearings) determined new ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...