A new study conducted by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center for Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Law School reports that more than 2,000 people have been wrongly convicted since 1989. The new archive lists 873 exonerated defendants…
Santae A. Tribble, 51, always maintained his innocence in the 1978 killing of a taxi driver in Washington, D.C. After 28 years in prison, a judge overturned Tribble’s conviction and precluded Tribble from being charged again. Tribble was connected to…
Debbie Jones picked out Thomas McGowan as her rapist from a photo lineup. She had no doubt that McGowan was the right man. He was convicted, primarily on her testimony, and Jones did her best to move on with her…
The Washington Supreme Court overturned the conviction and death sentence of Darold Stenson ruling that his rights were violated when the state “wrongfully suppressed” photographs that raised questions about mishandling of evidence and an FBI file that was never turned…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has become a leader, not only in Texas but nationally, in the effort to exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners. Watkins was elected District Attorney in 2006 with only 51% of the vote. He had lost…
Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell told a nine-member panel of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that death row inmate Hank Skinner’s request for DNA testing that could exonerate him was a “frivolous” attempt to delay his execution. Skinner, 50,…
CBS aired a piece last night about NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell and the need for law enforcement to use best practices in their eyewitness identification procedures. This could help reduce the number of wrongful convictions like Maurice’s. To watch the…
Robert Dewey, 51, was freed last week after a joint motion to reverse his conviction was granted by a Mesa County, Colorado judge. A re-examination of DNA evidence in the rape and murder case exonerated Dewey and pointed to another…
James Curtis Williams and Raymond Jackson were released last Monday after being wrongfully convicted in a 30-year-old rape and shooting. Williams and Jackson had been convicted of aggravated sexual assault in 1983 but were exonerated through DNA testing. Judge Susan…
Veritas researchers found that from 2004-2008, Arizona courts found prosecutorial misconduct in 20 cases. Fifteen of the cases were deemed harmless, meaning the court ruled the misconduct would not have affected the outcome of the case. Only three prosecutors were…
