wrongful convictions
Missouri woman's murder conviction overturned after 40 years as suspicions turn to ex-cop
Judge Ryan Horsman ruled that Sandra Hemme, now 64, established evidence of actual innocence and must be released within 30 days unless prosecutors retry her in the case of 31-year-old...
Ex-con whose past murder rap was tossed now charged with gunning down 19-year-old less than 2 years later
A Queens ex-con whose murder conviction was tossed out by prosecutors is back behind bars -- this time charged in connection to a fatal shootout that left a 19-year-old man...
Brooklyn friends who spent decades wrongly imprisoned for 1987 Times Square tourist murder finally cleared
Eric Smokes, 56, and David Warren, 53, were teenagers when they were arrested for the fatal mugging of 71-year-old Jean Casse on W. 52nd St, which unfolded moments after the...
Brooklyn man exonerated after 14 years in prison in another case investigated by crooked NYPD detective
A Brooklyn man who served 14 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit – in a case investigated by disgraced ex-NYPD Det. Louis Scarcella – had his conviction...
Cop who fatally shot exonerated man was fired in 2017 for using excessive force during traffic stop
The Georgia deputy who fatally shot a black man who had served more than 16 years in prison on a wrongful robbery conviction was fired from a police department in...
Bodycam footage shows Georgia officer fatally shooting exonerated man during traffic stop
“I can only imagine what it’s like to know your son is innocent and watch him be sentenced to life in prison, to be exonerated and … then be told...
Exonerated man who spent 16 years in prison on wrongful conviction shot dead by Georgia deputy during traffic stop
Leonard Cure was killed during a Georgia traffic stop while en route to visit his mother in Florida.
Oklahoma man serving life sentence uses pandemic funds to prove his innocence in murder case
An Oklahoma man serving a life sentence in prison used his pandemic relief funds to hire a private investigator to help exonerate him for a 1997 murder he did not...
Wrongfully convicted man walks free after more than 2 decades as podcast shed light on his murder case
A Georgia man who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 2001 walked free last week, and a podcast is being credited with helping to bring attention to his case.
Judge tosses last of over 300 Bronx cases linked to disgraced ex-NYPD Det. Joseph Franco: 'Cannot stand behind these convictions'
Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Martin threw out the 67 remaining low-level drug case convictions stemming from Franco's stint as an undercover Bronx narcotics detective from 2011 to 2015 --...
Celebrity forensic scientist liable for fabricating evidence that sent men to prison for 30 years: judge
Dr. Henry Lee, 84, was found liable for the wrongful convictions of Ralph “Ricky” Birch and Shawn Henning last week.
Albany's latest 'wrongful' bill will mean MORE crime
Albany's “Wrongful Conviction Act” eviscerate any hope of having finality in our criminal-justice system and will result in infinite appeals in the same cases and more criminals released onto our...
Generative AI tool amplifies race and gender stereotypes: study
Images generated for every "high-paying" job -- like architect, doctor, lawyer, CEO and politician -- were dominated by lighter skin tones, Bloomberg found.
Australian mom who served 20 years for killing 4 kids is freed thanks to new twist in case
Kathleen Folbigg was long deemed Australia's worst female serial killer before she was pardoned Monday by officials accepting that her four kids likely died of natural causes, as she has...
Daniel Saldana exonerated after spending 33 years behind bars for wrongful attempted murder conviction
Daniel Saldana, 55, walked free 33 years after he was convicted of trying to murder a group of six high school students.
St. Louis prosecutor seeks to free man serving life sentence for 1990 murder
Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said 'clear and convincing evidence' shows Christopher Dunn's first-degree murder conviction should be set aside.
2 wrongly convicted men, who served 17 years for attempted murder, declared innocent
Dupree Glass and Juan Rayford, who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted murder after a 2004 shooting, were declared innocent Thursday by a California...
Florida man wrongfully convicted freed after serving 34 years of 400-year attempted robbery sentence
A Florida man has been exonerated after spending more than three decades of his 400-year sentence in prison for a 1988 attempted robbery that he never committed, officials said. Sidney...
Man who served 28 years in prison freed after murder conviction overturned
Lamar Johnson, 50, served close to three decades in prison for a 1994 murder he has always said he did not commit.
'Serial' saga: Hae Min Lee's family demands Adnan Syed's murder conviction be reinstated
Hae Min Lee's family's attorneys want Adnan Syed's conviction reinstated while they await a new hearing on the case profiled on the hit podcast "Serial."