Black Americans More Likely to Be Wrongfully Convicted, Study Finds
A report from the National Registry of Exonerations says that Black Americans are seven times more likely to be falsely convicted of...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 2, 20221 min read
PA Campaign Has a Willie Horton Moment, With Complications
If Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz meant to give his opponent a Willie Horton moment, it seems to be complicated by certain...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 10, 20221 min read
Eight Murder Cases Dropped in Chicago's Largest Mass Exoneration
Cook County, Il., State's Attorney Kim Fox dropped eight murder cases from the 1980s and ’90s because of misconduct by former Chicago...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Missouri Man Denied Exoneration Based on 1993 Supreme Court Decision
Christopher Dunn, a Missouri man sentenced life without parole, plus 90 years, for a murder he says he didn’t commit, has spent 30 years...
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Crime and Justice News
May 5, 20222 min read
$10.5M Settlement in NYC Wrongful Conviction Involving Detective
Shawn Williams was accused of killing a man in Brooklyn in 1993. No forensic evidence ever connected him to the murder, and one woman’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 28, 20222 min read
Man Serving Life Sentence Freed After 31 Years in Mistaken ID Case
After two men entered an apartment in the Coconut Grove section of Miami on Jan. 17, 1990, and one of them fatally shot a man during a...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 15, 20221 min read
Durham, N.C., Refuses to Pay $6M Verdict Against Police Detective
A man who successfully fought to have two murder convictions overturned, was pardoned and won a $6 million judgment for civil rights...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 13, 20221 min read
Blacks Comprise Two-Thirds of Last Year's Exonerations
More than two-thirds of people exonerated in wrongful conviction investigations last year were Black, including three on death row, says...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 24, 20222 min read
Michigan Brothers Exonerated After Role in Murder Found Bogus
Two brothers have been exonerated and released from a Michigan prison after 25 years, the New York Times reports. George and Melvin...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 10, 20221 min read
Exoneration Registry Marks 3,000th Case In More Than Two Decades
Amid 600 Chicago murders in 1985, gang crimes officers were looking for suspects when they spotted a teenager walking along a street. He...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 4, 20221 min read
Investors Front Money to Wrongful Convicted People Seeking Damages
Charles Johnson was released from prison in 2016, after serving 22 years for a crime he didn’t commit. He had one item of potential...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 5, 20222 min read
Pennsylvania Man Free After 37 Years Due to False Testimony
A Philadelphia man was freed from prison Tuesday after 37 years in a case marred by detectives who allegedly offered a witness sex and...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 31, 20212 min read
High Court Test for Late Evidence of Innocence
Although the current question before the Supreme Court in an Arizona death-penalty case is highly technical, the decision could have...
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