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(Trends Wide) — After spending 29 years in prison for the rape of his stepdaughter, a New Orle… Read More
The Virginia legislature has agreed to pay $1.5 million in compensation to a man who served 23 years in prison for a sexual abuse crime that the state now says he did not commit, officials… Read More
After a quarter-century in a Georgia jail for a homicide he didn’t commit, Cain Joshua Storey had one query when a pair of investigative podcasters mentioned they wished to inform… Read More
Sabrina Butler sat terrified in the dimly lit interrogation room in Columbus, Mississippi. White men towered over the 17-year-old Black grieving mother.
She killed her son, didn’t s… Read More
Newkirk Center Named Home of National Registry Exonerations – UCI
Irvine, Calif., March 14, 2017 — The University of California, Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society… Read More
Wrongfully imprisoned persons lost a total of 1,849 years of their lives before being cleared in 2021, according to the newly released annual report from the National Registry of… Read More
For decades, Isaiah Andrews has maintained his innocence in the 1974 murder of his wife, unaware that the key to his exoneration was buried in the archives of the Cleveland Division of P… Read More
NEARLY a year after the heinous murder of George Floyd, 46, by a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, justice was finally served on Tuesday when a Hennepin County District Court found… Read More
Police misconduct, such as hiding or falsifying evidence, witness tampering, and violent interrogation, is responsible for the majority of wrongful convictions.
Wrongful Convictions Linke… Read More
I am just going to leave this as is. I subscribe to the Post and have been a follower and reader of Mr. Balko and his work "woke" me to this many years ago sitting in my living room&nbs… Read More
by Dr. John MastersonEmeritus Professor of MathematicsMichigan State UniversityThe evidence strongly suggests that Efrén Paredes, Jr.'s version of what actually occurred during the ti… Read More
Christopher Boots went from living in a cell like this, to getting free dental care from Dr. Elizabeth Sasse based in OregonFrom Tigard, Oregon, a man by the name of Christop… Read More
Summary: Prosecutors that don’t play by the rules are not being held accountable for the crimes so some care speaking up and calling for a change.
Glenn Kurtzrock was a homicide prose… Read More
"What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty" by Megan Rose, ProPublica 9/7/2017A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cl… Read More
Photo Credit: American Bar AssociationBefore DNA testing proved otherwise, almost everyone in America believed that our justice system rarely convicted the innocent. A recent study revealed… Read More