wrongful convictions
Cut short: Wrongfully convicted man dies a year after winning freedom, family files $100 million lawsuit
Ernest "Jaythan" Kendrick was found guilty in 1994 of fatally stabbing Josephine Sanchez, 70, in Astoria's Ravenswood Houses, a conviction based largely on planted evidence, false police reports and the...
Accused crooked NYPD cop 'doing his job,' lawyer says
"He lied in each case to his fellow officers, to prosecutors, in official paperwork, and under oath in sworn testimony before the grand jury," Drorken alleged.
Man wrongfully convicted of 1990 NYC subway stabbing gets $18M settlement
Johnny Hincapie was accused of stabbing Utah tourist Brian Wattkins to death in 1990 but Hincapie said he had been coerced into falsely confessing to the killing.
Inmate confesses to two murders on podcast: ‘I sleep with dead bodies’
Jeremy Scott, already serving a life sentence for a botched robbery, confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in 1987 to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King in the final episode of his...
Man falsely imprisoned for 30 years dies months after release
Claude Francis Garrett, 66, died in his sleep on Oct. 30, less than six months after he was exonerated for the 1992 murder of his girlfriend.
Prosecutors drop charges in ‘Serial’ podcast case: attorney
Erica Suter, a lawyer who has represented Adnan Syed in court during his push to be freed, confirmed the news to The Baltimore Sun.
'Serial' case: Victim's family demands to see evidence that let Adnan Syed go free
The family of Hae Min Lee want to see the evidence that led to the release of her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed from prison in connection to her 1999 murder —...
Verdict soon in retrial of man who did 24 years after allegedly confessing to embattled ex-detective
Eliseo DeLeon spent 24 years in prison before his slay case was overturned in 2019 amid concerns about his disputed confession allegedly secured by Louis Scarcella.
Brooklyn DA moves to vacate 3 convictions in 1995 murder case probed by disgraced cop
The Brooklyn District Attorney is calling for three convictions to be overturned in the 1995 murder of a token booth clerk.
Florida man freed after serving 32 years for murder could land back in prison
Crosley Green was convicted of first-degree murder in 1990 for shooting dead Charles “Chip” Flynn. The conviction was overturned by a federal judge who accused prosecutors of withholding evidence.
Texas lawmakers rally behind woman convicted of killing baby in light of 'new evidence'
Texas lawmakers have rallied behind a mother on death row for killing her daughter, asking that the woman's execution be delayed due to "new evidence."
How a murderer duped William F. Buckley Jr. into fighting for his release
How a charismatic murderer duped conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. into fighting for his release.
Man who served 37 years for wrongful murder charge is free after witness said detectives gave him sex, drugs to lie
The trial witness was charged with perjury just days after Willie Stokes was convicted of murder in 1984. But Stokes didn’t learn about that perjury plea until 2015, decades into...
Author Alice Sebold apologizes to man wrongly convicted of raping her in 1981
"I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you," Sebold wrote Tuesday.
Missouri man exonerated in 1978 triple murder case gets over $1 million in donations
An online fundraiser for Kevin Strickland who was wrongly convicted in a 1978 triple slaying has reached $1.1 million.
Applause breaks out in NYC courtroom as two men cleared of Malcolm X murder
Applause broke out in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday when a judge tossed the convictions of two men found guilty in the assassination of Malcolm X more than half a...
Two men convicted in 1965 Malcolm X assassination set to be exonerated
The DA's office began reviewing the case in February 2020, in the wake of the Netflix documentary series “Who Killed Malcolm X?” — which followed historian Abdur-Rahman Muhammad’s quest for...
Wrongly convicted man who spent 15 years on death row dies of COVID-19
Damon Thibodeaux, who died Sept. 2 after spending a third of his life behind bars, moved to Minnesota to restart his life as a long-haul trucker.
Home free: Staten Island man's murder rap tossed after 23 years behind bars
Grant Williams, 50, turned and hugged his lawyers as State Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi vacated his 1997 conviction, as supporters applauded in the courtroom.
Idaho man gets life for 1996 rape, murder that sent innocent man to prison
Dripps was arrested in May 2019 after investigators linked his DNA to the murder scene.