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The 2013 holiday season meant a great deal to Brandon Olebar, who, after 10 years of wrongful incarceration, got to enjoy the festivities with his family for the first time in over a decade. Olebar’s...
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Jerome Morgan Wins New Trial in New Orleans
With the help of the New Orleans Innocence Project, Jerome Morgan, who has spent 19 years in prison for a murder termed the “sweet 16 birthday shooting,” has been granted a new trial. The prosecution...
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Anthony Graves, Exonerated Death Row Inmate, to File Grievance Against Former...
Yet another case of egregious prosecutorial misconduct. Anthony Graves was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for a gruesome multiple homicide that occurred in Somerville, TX in August of...
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Michigan Man Who Falsely Confessed Charged with Lying to Police
This one is mind boggling. A mentally ill Lansing, Michigan man, Kosgar Lado, under interrogation by police, momentarily confessed to shooting a man. Even though he subsequently withdrew that...
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Cook County State’s Attorney Urged to Reconsider Indicting Witness Who Recanted
In an op-ed piece (here) in the Chicago Sun-Times, Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, is urging Cook County (IL) State’s...
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Even a “Disney World” Defense Can’t Overcome a (False) Eyewitness
Jonathan Fleming was convicted of murder in New York in 1990. He was just recently exonerated and released after spending 24 years in prison for the murder he did not commit. The story has recently...
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Delaware Supreme Court Grants New Trial to Death Row Inmate
Jermaine Wright, who has resided on death row following his conviction of the 1991 murder of Phillip Seifert at a liquor store just outside of Wilmington, Delaware, was granted a new trial yesterday....
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David McCallum and the late William Stuckey exonerated of murder
After 29 years in prison, David McCallum was exonerated yesterday of a murder he did not commit. Kings County (NY) Supreme Court Justice Matthew D’Emic also exonerated William Stuckey who died in...
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Open Records Policies Shine Light on Misconduct, Injustice
Dallas County (TX) District Judge Mark Stoltz issued findings of fact and conclusions of law last week before recommending that the murder convictions of Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Orson Mozee be...
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New York Taxpayers to Pay $9 Million in Wrongful Conviction Settlement
New York City, its Housing Authority, and the State of New York have agreed to pay $9 million to Danny Colon, 50, and Anthony Ortiz, 44. Both men spent 16 years in prison before their convictions in a...
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Ohio and California: Convictions Overturned after Record-Long Wrongful...
It has been a remarkable week for Innocence work, and this is only Wednesday. Yesterday, November 18, Ricky Jackson’s murder conviction was vacated in Ohio after Jackson had spent 39 years in prison....
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Derrick Hamilton exonerated in New York; Alan Beaman pardoned in Illinois
In two separate cases, men who were convicted and imprisoned for murders they did not commit had a very good week as officials recognized their innocence on Friday, January 9. Both had been released...
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Christopher Abernathy Exonerated and Freed after 30 Years in Prison
Christopher Abernathy, 48, was released from prison on Wednesday after Cook County (IL) Judge Frank Zelezinski vacated his 1987 conviction for a rape and murder Cook County (IL) officials now...
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Ohio Innocence Project Nets Another Triple Win; Defendants to Be Freed After...
From University of Cincinnati press release: UPDATE: All 3 inmates were released the same day as this press release Legal advocacy from the Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati has...
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Tuesday’s Quick Clicks…
Juan Silva, who falsely confessed in order to protect his son, to be released from prison… In Michigan, Adam Stevens’ second-degree murder conviction overturned… Jack Edward Sagin of California loses...
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What’s the right compensation for the wrongfully convicted?… Editorial: Taking another bite out of junk science in the Texas criminal justice system… Forensic Science Commission will investigate...
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Friday’s Quick Clicks…
The Montana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a district court must reconsider Robert J. Wilkes’ appeal in 2008 shaken baby case… Patricia Cummings named chief of Dallas county conviction integrity...
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A Broken Justice System – Cases in Point – Part 2 – The Case of Courtney Bisbee
From time to time, I become aware of cases that are particularly good examples of the flaws, the problems, the shortcomings, the failures, and the actual injustices of our so-called justice system...
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Wednesday’s Quick Clicks…
An exoneration happens every three days in America. What this really says about our justice system… Victim recants ID that put Rodney Lincoln in prison for mother’s murder in St. Louis in 1982… Texas...
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Howard Dudley Freed in North Carolina After 23 Years
Photo: Chris Seward – cseward@newsobserver.com After 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, convicted by false accusation and perjury, Howard Dudley has been released from prison in North...
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