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Life After Exoneration
After 17 years of being imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit, the Memphis 3 are adjusting to to life outside of prison. Damien Echols has written a book and…
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Wrongfully Convicted, But Still In Prison
How do you prove innocence when there is no evidence tying the convicted person to the crime, except eyewitness testimony? George Gould and Ronald Taylor were wrongfully convicted of murder…
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295th Person to be Exonerated Using DNA
On July 19th, the Innocence Project announced that Sedrick Courtney became the 295th person to be exonerated using DNA evidence. According to the Innocence project, "Sedrick Courtney was wrongfully convicted…
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Calls for Change in Wake of Wrongful Convictions
The Texas Tribune analyzed 86 overturned convictions, finding that in nearly one quarter of those cases courts ruled that prosecutors made mistakes that often contributed to the wrong outcome. This multi-part series explores the causes and consequences of prosecutorial errors and whether reforms might prevent future wrongful convictions.
[caption id="attachment_176" align="alignleft" width="150"]Michael Morton[/caption]There’s no balancing of the books when you lose two and a half decades of your life to prison, Michael Morton says. He can’t make up for missing his son Eric’s childhood while he was stuck behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit.
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Man Released After Serving 20 Years – Prosecutors Acknowledge Erroneous FBI Forensics
Kirk Odom served 20 years in prison for a rape he never committed. He was released in 2003 after serving his sentence and nine years later, on July 10, 2012, prosecutors acknowledge that he was in fact innocent and convicted based on erroneous FBI forensics.
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Many More Exonerations and False Convictions than Previously Found, But Only “the Tip of the Iceberg”
There have been over 2000 exonerations of wrongful convictions in the past 23 years and that number is growing every year. The problems with these wrongful convictions can be false…
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Freedom On June 29, 2012 After Enduring 17 Years Of Wrongful Conviction (2)
LaMonte Armstrong suffered 17 years of injustice and finally won his freedom with the help of Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic (an Innocence Project). His conviction of murder was…
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Prosecutors In Colorado Agree State Should Compensate Exonerated
Most people do not realize that people who have been wrongly convicted and exonerated do not receive any benefits or help from the state. People who have done their time…
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The Texas Exoneree Project
A group of exonerated inmates from Texas have banded together to help others like them re-enter society. They say there are programs in place to help parolees but there are…
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The National Registry of Exonerations
Currently over 900 exonerations are listed on The National Registry of Exonerations website. It is a joint project between the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions…