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