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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43 Years
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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3 Maryland Men Exonerated After 36 Years in Prison
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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DNA Evidence Could Exonerate Man Executed in Tennessee
The nonprofit Innocence Project believes DNA evidence may exonerate a man who was executed 13 years ago in Tennessee.
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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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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.
Read moreTexas Prosecutors Declare Ex-Death Row Inmate Innocent
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.
Read moreExonerated Georgia Man Loses Defamation Case
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.
Read moreBankruptcy Shields Detroit From Exoneree’s Claims
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.
Read moreMissouri Fights St. Louis Over Wrongful Conviction Money
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.
Read moreExoneree Blames Ex-Chicago Detective for Murder Conviction
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.
Read moreWrongfully Convicted Man Blames NYPD for Unfair Trial
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.
Read moreWrongful Murder Conviction Costs LA County $15 Million
Frank 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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Pardoned Indiana Man Blames Cops for Wrongful Conviction
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 moreExonerated Inmate Claims Bribery Fueled Testimony in Fatal Kidnapping Trial
A 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 moreWoman Sues Cops After Court Overturns Shaken-Baby Conviction
A 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 Couple to Get $3.4M on False Claims of Satanic Abuse
Texas 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 moreInmates Wrongfully Convicted of ‘Satanic Killing’ Say Cops Fabricated Evidence
A 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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Freed From Death Row, Man Sues His Texas Prosecutor
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 moreEx-Death Row Inmate Blames Conviction on Gay ‘Witch Hunt’
Former 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.
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