MI Pays Wrongfully Imprisoned Man $1.75M, He Seeks More From Police
A Michigan man who was wrongfully imprisoned for sexual assault is getting a major payout. The Michigan Attorney General's office...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 122 min read
$25M Settlement Latest In Rising Wrongful Conviction List
The wrongful conviction of Ronnie Long might appear shocking: No physical evidence, false testimony, a conflicting description of the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 101 min read
N.C. Man Wins $25M Settlement After 44 Wrongful Years in Prison
Ronnie Wallace Long, who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years, has reached a $25 million combined settlement with a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 32 min read
Some Excluded From Michigan Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Law
Marvin Cotton Jr., a Detroit man who had a murder conviction overturned in 2020, attempted to take advantage of Michigan’s Wrongful...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 24, 20232 min read
Disabled Man Settles For $11.7M In Indiana Wrongful Conviction Case
Andrew Royer, a man with developmental disabilities who spent more than 16 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder, ...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 23, 20232 min read
NY Governor Vetoes Bill To Ease Challenges Of Convictions
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for people who have pleaded guilty to crimes to challenge their...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 13, 20231 min read
Chicago Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Murder Released After 35 Years
A Chiicago man wrongfully convicted in a 1988 murder who spent 35 years behind bars was released Tuesday after a judge dismissed all...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 29, 20232 min read
NIJ Report: The Role of Forensic Evidence in Wrongful Convictions
Forensic scientists at the National Institute of Justice wanted to examine the errors in forensic science that have led to wrongful...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 28, 20232 min read
New York Judge Vacates Two Wrongful Murder Convictions
A New York judge vacated two wrongful convictions Monday after reinvestigations found the murder trials were based on incorrect...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 24, 20232 min read
'Dark Pleas' Offer Freedom For Defendants Claiming Innocence
It was 2021, and Leroy Spruill and Wallace Jones had each served 26 years of a life sentence for the 1993 murder of Frank Swain in Roper,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Baltimore Pays $48 Million To Three Men Exonerated Of Murder
Three men who were wrongly arrested and spent 36 years in prison for a murder they did not commit will receive a $48 million payout from...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 12, 20231 min read
OK Panel Considers Death Penalty Suspension After 46 Exonerations
An Oklahoma man serving a life sentence in prison hired a private investigator with COVID relief funds whose work, along with help from...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 4, 20231 min read
57 Convictions Voided In Orange County, Ca., Informant Scandal
A new analysis from California Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders found that Orange County’s illegal use of jailhouse informants...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 21, 20232 min read
CT Men Wrongfully Convicted of 1985 Murder Win $25M In Lawsuit
Connecticut has agreed to pay a $25 million settlement to two men who spent decades in prison for a murder they did not commit, and whose...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Two Men Settle With Louisville For $20.5M In Wrongful Conviction Case
Two Kentucky men who were jailed for 22 years for a 1992 murder they did not commit agreed to settle a civil rights case against...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 16, 20231 min read
Indiana Must Pay $3M In Wrongful Conviction Cases
Four years after Indiana enacted a law providing restitution in wrongful conviction cases, 33 people have applied, News From The States...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20231 min read
Anatomy of a Police Interrogation Gone Wrong
A video described as "required viewing by every detective and every juvenile officer" depicts detectives in a Chicago suburb coercing a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 10, 20232 min read
Man Wrongfully Accused In Central Park Attack Set To Join NYC Council
Yusef Salaam’s mom paced the streets of Harlem, advocating for her son’s freedom after he and four other teens were accused of brutally...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 19, 20232 min read
After Twists, Turns In Court, AZ Inmate Freed After Nearly 30 Years
Barry Jones, an Arizona death row inmate walked free last week after serving nearly three decades for the death of a child, after his...
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Crime and Justice News
May 24, 20232 min read
State Open Doors Wider to Innocence Claims
As more states grapple with the reliability of past expert testimony in criminal cases and loosen restrictions on making innocence claims...
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