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Happy New Year from all of us at the Innocence Project to our wonderful blog readers and our online community...
As we wrote yesterday in our post on ten great moments of the decade, it has been an eventful and successful 10 years for individuals and groups working to overturn wrongful convictions - but there's plenty of work left to do...
It goes without saying that DNA testing and the issues surrounding wrongful convictions have left their mark on the criminal justice system in the last ten years...
In 1986, three New York men - John Restivo, John Kogut and Dennis Halstead - were wrongfully convicted of killing a 16-year-old girl on Long Island...
Two recent Florida exonerees are celebrating their freedom this holiday season after marking too many New Year's Days behind bars.Jamie Bain was freed December 17 after spending 35 years in Florida prisons for a crime DNA now proves he didn't commit...
Donald Eugene Gates was freed from prison and his conviction was vacated last week when a D.C. Superior Court judge acted at the prosecutor's request and acknowledged Gates was wrongfully imprisoned for 27 years. DNA testing and other evidence showed that Gates was innocent. The U.S...
Phillip Scott Cannon was released from an Oregon jail on Friday after prosecutors in his case said he had been convicted based on unreliable forensics and couldn't be retried because evidence in his case had been destroyed...
Just weeks after a new Innocence Project report revealed devastating gaps in the support states provide to people exonerated after serving years in prison for crimes they didn't commit, New Jersey's Star Ledger ran an editorial this weekend about the serious need for the state to improve...
A new report released yesterday by the New York Inspector General finds that a major State Police crime lab failed to detect and act upon systematic problems in the handling of evidence and the falsification of test results in hundreds of cases over 15 years...
A report released today by the Innocence Network delves into the cases of the 27 people exonerated this year through the work of the network's 54 member organizations. The 27 exonerees served a total of 421 years behind bars...
James Bain was released from prison this morning in Florida after serving 35 years in prison for a crime DNA now proves he didn't commit...
Yesterday, Michael Marshall was freed in Georgia after spending more than two years behind bars for a crime DNA proves he didn't commit...
As we reported yesterday, Donald Eugene Gates was freed in Arizona after serving nearly three decades behind bars for a Washington, D.C., crime he didn't commit...
A report released today by the Boston Bar Association lays out a sweeping strategy for improving the accuracy of the state's criminal justice system and calls for the enactment of a law providing access to DNA testing in cases where it can prove innocence...
Donald Eugene Gates was freed today in Arizona, after spending nearly three decades in federal prisons for a murder and rape DNA now shows he didn't commit. He will travel to his home state of Ohio for the week, but a hearing next week in Washington, D.C. could fully clear him...
