wrongful convictions
NYC man who spent 24 years behind bars for ex-cop's murder is exonerated thanks to DNA
A 48-year-old Manhattan man who spent half his life behind bars for the shooting death of a ret🐻ired NYPD detective was exoneranted Monday thanks to a bit of DNA taken...
🎃 Grandma who served 43 years in prison reunites with family after murder conviction was overturned
Sandra Hemme had been the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman known in the US, according to her legal team 🐻at the Innocence Project.
Missouri woman's murder conviction overturned after 40 years as suspicions turn to ex-cop
Judge Ryan Horsman rule🌄d 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 ꦓspent 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 year🔴s in prison in another case investigated by crooked✤ NYPD detective
A Brooklyn man who served 14 years behind ba♚rs for a murder he didn’t commit – in a case investigated by disgraced ex-NYPD Det. Louis Scarcella – had his conviction... ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ
Cop who fatally shot exonerateꦜd man was fired in 2017 for using excessive force during traffic stop
The Georgia deputy wh✤o 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 𝔉man during traffic stop
🧜 “I can only imagine what it’s like to know yourไ son is innocent and watch him be sentenced to life in prison, to be exonerated and … then be told...
Exon🔴erated man who spent 16 years in prison on wrongful conviction shot dead by Georgia deputy during traffic stop
Leonard Cure was ಞkilled during a Georgia traffic stop while en route to visit his mother in Florida.
Oklahoma man🔯 serving life sentence uses pandemic fꩵunds 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 murd♓er he did not...
Wrongfully convicte🅺d 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 at✃tention 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 S🍒upreme Court Justice Margaret Martin threw out the 67 remaining low-level drug case convictions stemming from Franco's stint as an undercover Bronx narcotics detectiv♋e 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 R🎃alph “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 mor💮e criminals released onto our...
🧔 Generative AI tool💧 amplifies race and gender stereotypes: study
Images generated for every "hi🧜gh-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 thꦑanks to new twist in case
Kathleen Folbigg was 𝓡long 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 a🉐fter spending🦂 33 years behind bars for wrongful attempted murder conviction
Daniel Saldana, 55, walꦉked free 33 years after he was convicted of trying to murder a group of six high school students.
St. Louis prosecuto𝓰r seeks to free man serving life sentence for 1990 murder
Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said 'clear and♓ convincing evidence' shoꦅws Christopher Dunn's first-degree murder conviction should be set aside.
2 wrongly convic🌌ted men, who served 17 years for attempted murder, declared innocent
Dupree Glass and Juan Rayford, who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wro𓆏ngly 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 attempt𝄹ed robbery sentence
A Florida man has been exonerated aft♒er spending more than three decades of hi🍃s 400-year sentence in prison for a 1988 attempted robbery that he never committed, officials said. Sidney...