Illinois Has Most Documented Wrongful Convictions in U.S.
*A new study examining wrongful convictions across the country is highlighting the staggering amount of time innocent people have spent behind bars, with Illinois recording more do...
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*A new study examining wrongful convictions across the country is highlighting the staggering amount of time innocent people have spent behind bars, with Illinois recording more do...
Wrongfully convicted Bintz brothers sue Green Bay and former investigators, alleging fabricated evidence and coerced confessions violated their rights. The post Brothers sue Green...
Pamela Colloff discusses the dangers of incentivized testimony, the difficulty of overturning wrongful convictions, and how the justice system compounds its own errors.
Michael Renteria was wrongfully convicted of two counts of attempted murder in 2013 after a witness misidentified him, according to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman. A...
Midwest Innocence Project attorneys argue a Kansas City, Kansas, man was unjustly convicted of murder and attempted murder in a 2009 barbershop shooting.
Court of Appeal says DPP did not dispute that Breatnach ‘had no hand, act or part’ in 1976 robbery
Where the trial court improperly instructed the jury on the government’s proximate cause burden when a defendant is charged with violating 18 U.S.C. § 242, which makes it illegal f...
The wrongful conviction of Osgur Breatnach for the Sallins train robbery half a century ago has now been declared a miscarriage of justice.
Alan Hall was wrongfully convicted nearly 40 years ago of murdering Arthur Easton. Today two police officers were found not guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Where the Commonwealth violated a defendant’s speedy trial rights, his conviction for unlawful wounding for shooting a young man in the face during a drug deal was reversed and a [...
He stood before a judge, facing grand theft charges, but the judge soon found out he was the wrong man.
A new court filing claims Donnell Dobbs was wrongfully convicted in a 2008 Kansas City, Kansas, murder and alleges former detective Roger Golubski ignored evidence, withheld key in...
Osgur Breatnach was found guilty by the non-jury Special Criminal Court in December 1978, but his conviction was overturned a year and a half later.
Where a man was convicted of murdering the victim, concealing her body, robbery and abduction, and there was sufficient evidence to support these convictions, they were affirmed. B...
The lawsuit, filed July 24 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, names the City of Blue Ash and nine former Blue Ash police officers as defendants.
Recent court rulings in Louisiana and Texas give hope to Devin Bennett.
After enduring twenty-two long years of wrongful imprisonment, a man was finally acquitted by the Supreme Court. The injustice stemmed from the trial court's flawed evidence analys...
BATON ROUGE — A man who spent 45 years, 18 months and three days in prison for a crime he did not commit is now facing the possibility of losing his sight.Wilbert Jones w...
Wrongful conviction stories often end the moment someone walks out of prison. But for award-winning filmmaker Lana Adams, that was never enough. With her documentary 42 Years for N...
Reformers need to take into account people’s fear of crime and human predators.
The post He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next? appeared first on ProPublica.
Guy Miles' conviction was based in part on the false testimony of two eyewitnesses, despite the fact that five people testified he was in Las Vegas on the day of the crime.
The devil drives a hard bargain.
Where the district court included in the written criminal judgment home confinement conditions that it did not mention at sentencing, it erred. A district court must orally pronoun...
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