Freddie Joe Lawrence accuses Ravalli, Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark counties in a federal complaint of fabricating evidence to convict him of murder. DNA evidence exonerated Lawrence after 23 years in prison, during which time his wife died and he lost contact with his three children, whom he still cannot locate.
Read moreA federal judge denied Philadelphia’s request for summary judgment against Shaurn Thomas, who sued it after he was imprisoned for 24 years for a murder of which he was exonerated.
Read moreProsecutors on Friday officially declared a Texas man innocent after he spent 10 years on death row for a double murder he didn’t commit.
Read moreThe 11th Circuit on Friday begrudgingly granted a former Georgia district attorney qualified immunity from claims that he defamed a wrongfully convicted prisoner in retaliation for seeking compensation after his exoneration.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Detroit from a civil rights lawsuit brought by a man who spent eight years in prison for four murders he didn’t commit, finding the city is immune from his claims of police misconduct because of its 2013 bankruptcy.
Read moreAfter agreeing to pay half of a $13.8 million settlement to a man wrongfully convicted of murder, Missouri’s attorney general changed his mind and sued St. Louis, seeking to limit the state’s liability to $1 million.
Read moreA man exonerated of kidnapping two children and killing their parents sued a disgraced former Chicago detective blamed for a string of wrongful convictions, claiming the officer beat a false confession out of him and the police department falsified and suppressed evidence.
Read moreA man who served 20 years in prison for a murder in the Bronx more than 1,000 miles away from where alibi witnesses could put him filed suit Monday against police he accuses of witness manipulation and evidence suppression.
Read moreFrank O’Connell exhaled Tuesday afternoon after the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $15 million to settle his wrongful murder conviction, for which he served 27 years in prison.
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The Indiana man who was granted the first-ever innocence pardon from state’s governor wants compensation for the 10 years he spent in prison for an armed robbery he didn’t commit.
Read moreA Puerto Rican man who spent nearly two decades in prison before being cleared of murder charges claims in court that prosecutors and police paid off witnesses to testify against him to frame him for the rape and murder of a 21-year-old woman.
Read moreA former day care worker who was freed last year after spending almost a decade in prison on charges that she killed a baby claims police and a state’s witness fabricated a report finding that the baby died of shaken-baby syndrome.
Read moreTexas will pay $3.4 million to a couple who were wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades on prosecutors’ claims that they sexually abused children as part of satanic rituals at a day care they operated.
Read moreA pair of inmates wrongfully imprisoned for over 22 years on murder convictions claim the Louisville Police Department fabricated evidence and a story about a Satanic ritual killing to convict them.
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A Houston prosecutor “went to unbelievable lengths to manipulate evidence,” including threatening and jailing witnesses and concealing exculpatory evidence, to send an innocent, mentally disabled man to prison for 12 years — 10 of them on death row — the exonerated man claims in court.
Read moreFormer death row inmate Kerry Max Cook, wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and murder in East Texas decades ago, claims in a federal lawsuit that it’s time for police officers who investigated the case to pay for their extreme misconduct, including fabricating evidence and coercing witness testimony.
Read moreA North Carolina man exonerated after serving 23 years in prison for a double-murder he did not commit is suing the investigators he claims fabricated the case against him and intentionally suppressed evidence that would have proved his innocence.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that states can’t require a criminal defendant whose conviction is later tossed out to prove her actual innocence before recovering fines, fees and other costs associated with their case.
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A man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder that someone else confessed to on a 911 call has sued Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, the district attorney and a police investigator.
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