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exoneration

Appeals Civil Rights Criminal Government 

Texas Supreme Court Orders State to Pay Innocent Man Freed From Death Row

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 TRAVIS BUBENIK
damages, Death Penalty, exoneration, murder, Texas

A Texas man who spent 10 years on death row for a crime he did not commit is entitled to compensation, the state’s highest court ruled Friday, despite state officials’ repeated refusal to pay him.

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Criminal International 

Wrongfully Accused South Korean Man Acquitted of Murder

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
exoneration, murder, rape, South Korea

A South Korean man who spent 20 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit has cleared his name in court after one of the country’s most notorious serial killers confessed to the 1988 rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl.

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Criminal Government 

Wrongful Conviction

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 BRIEF
Baltimore, exoneration, murder, Police, records

The family of a man exonerated after serving 17 years for murder cannot demand the Baltimore police department turn over his homicide files.

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Criminal Politics 

Flynn Prohibited From Filing New Records as Trump Says He Will Be Exonerated

April 30, 2020May 1, 2020 MEGAN MINEIRO
exoneration, FBI, Michael Flynn, Robert Mueller, Trump administration

After a bombshell filing this week seemed to reveal an FBI set-up, a federal judge temporarily blocked Michael Flynn from docketing any new records as the former national security adviser fights to have the case against him thrown out.

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Criminal Government Politics 

Trump Says Stone Has High Chance of Being Exonerated

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 MEGAN MINEIRO
Donald Trump, exoneration, Obstruction, pardons, Roger Stone, sentencing

Hours after a federal judge sentenced Roger Stone to more than three years in prison, President Donald Trump took to the stage of a graduation ceremony for former prisoners Thursday and said his longtime friend and ally was treated unfairly by the courts. 

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Civil Rights Criminal Government 

Actually Innocent

February 18, 2020February 19, 2020 BRIEF
ATF, drugs, exoneration

A federal court in Oklahoma awarded $4.7 million in damages to a woman who spent months incarcerated on federal drug charges before being found “actually innocent.” A special agent of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives completed a false police report describing a methamphetamine sale that never occurred.

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Civil Rights Criminal Science 

Arkansas Judge OKs Testing of Evidence on Executed Inmate

February 5, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arkansas, DNA, evidence, exoneration, murder

An Arkansas judge on Tuesday approved an agreement to allow new tests of fingerprint and DNA evidence that two groups say could exonerate a man executed in 2017

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Civil Rights Criminal Government 

Groups Sue for Evidence That Could Clear Executed Inmate

January 23, 2020 ERIK DE LA GARZA
aclu, Arkansas, DNA, evidence, executions, exoneration, murder

Ledell Lee was pronounced dead 12 minutes after his April 2017 execution began. But the Arkansas man always maintained his innocence, and two groups now claim DNA evidence could be used to exonerate Lee nearly three years after his death.

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Civil Rights Government 

Wrongful Conviction

December 18, 2019December 19, 2019 BRIEF
exoneration, murder, wrongful conviction

Valentino Dixon sued Buffalo, N.Y., Erie County and numerous officials and police officers in federal court, claiming their “egregious misconduct” sent him to prison for 27 years for a murder he did not commit.

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Civil Rights Criminal Government 

43 Years

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 BRIEF
exoneration, North Carolina, wrongful conviction

Charles Ray Finch, 81, who is black, sued Wilson County, N.C., its former sheriff and other officers in federal court; he was convicted of murder in 1976 and sentenced to death, then spent 43 years in prison until the Duke Law School Wrongful Convictions Clinic secured his exoneration and release this year.

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Criminal Law 

3 Maryland Men Exonerated After 36 Years in Prison

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
exoneration, Maryland, murder

Three men imprisoned for 36 years in Maryland were exonerated Monday of the killing of a Baltimore teenager after a review of their case.

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Civil Rights Criminal Government Technology 

DNA Evidence Could Exonerate Man Executed in Tennessee

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS
capital punishment, DNA, exoneration, Tennessee

The nonprofit Innocence Project believes DNA evidence may exonerate a man who was executed 13 years ago in Tennessee.

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Civil Rights Criminal Government 

DNA Exoneration

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 BRIEF
conspiracy, exoneration, Montana, wrongful conviction

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.

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Civil Rights 

Wrongful Conviction

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 BRIEF
exoneration, Philadelphia, wrongful conviction

A 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.

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Criminal Regional 

Texas Prosecutors Declare Ex-Death Row Inmate Innocent

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 JAMES PALMER
exoneration, murder, prosecutors, Texas

Prosecutors on Friday officially declared a Texas man innocent after he spent 10 years on death row for a double murder he didn’t commit.

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Appeals Civil Rights Law 

Exonerated Georgia Man Loses Defamation Case

January 28, 2019May 13, 2019 ERIKA WILLIAMS
11th circuit, defamation, exoneration, Georgia, kidnapping, rape

The 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.

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Civil Rights Regional 

Bankruptcy Shields Detroit From Exoneree’s Claims

December 5, 2018December 6, 2018 JEFF D. GORMAN
bankruptcy, Detroit, exoneration, misconduct, murder, Police, wrongful conviction

A 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.

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Government Law 

Missouri Fights St. Louis Over Wrongful Conviction Money

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 JOE HARRIS
exoneration, Missouri, murder, Settlement, St. Louis

After 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.

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Civil Rights Regional 

Exoneree Blames Ex-Chicago Detective for Murder Conviction

February 12, 2018February 14, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
Chicago, coercion, evidence, exoneration, murder, Police

A 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.

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Civil Rights Criminal 

Wrongfully Convicted Man Blames NYPD for Unfair Trial

January 30, 2018February 1, 2018 NICK RUMMELL
Bronx, evidence, exoneration, Florida, murder, NYC, Police, witnesses

A 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.

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