Advocacy group advertising Chris Tapp’s case

An advocacy group studying wrongful convictions is now advertising it efforts to help with a local case.

Judges for Justice will start running an ad for its work on the Christopher Tapp case.

Tapp has been in prison for over 19 years for the murder of Angie Dodge, and since his 1998 conviction, various advocacy groups have questioned his guilt.

Judges for Justice has put out multiple videos explaining why it believes Tapp’s confession was coerced.

Mike Heavey, a co-founder of the group and retired Seattle judge, has been reviewing the case for a few years now. He said the public needs to push for the Tapp conviction to be overturned .

“One of the ideas behind our organization is that the more people come to realize that a person may have been wrongfully convicted 19 years ago, then that’s good,” Heavey said. “That leaks over into the judicial branch. Because as long as people think Chris Tapp is guilty, there’s no interest in getting him out. So that’s why we’re running the ad, … to get this information out to as many people as possible so the people in the Idaho Falls, Bonneville County community are talking about it.”