According to a report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a record high number of 87 men and women who were wrongfully convicted of crime in the United States were exonerated in 2013. The National Registry of Exonerations is a…
30 years after wrongfully convicting Timothy Cole or rape, the city of Lubbock, Texas has installed a statue of Cole in an effort to honor Cole and recognize and remember the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Cole…
Prosecutors have agreed that the murder conviction of Cleveland Wright, 55, should be dismissed due to DNA testing that exonerated his co-defendant in 2012. In 1978, Wright and his childhood friend Santae Tribble were accused and charged for murdering two…
Victor Caminata, a Michigan man convicted of arson in 2009, was officially exonerated on Wednesday after serving more than four years in prison. Caminata was released in July, but the case wasn’t formally dismissed and Caminata cleared until Judge William…
Freedom Fighters, a documentary that follows a group of Texas exonerees as they form a detective agency to help exonerate other innocent inmates, received a MacArthur Foundation grant yesterday. The $150,000 grant for Freedom Fighters will enable director Jamie Meltzer…
Daniel Villegas, 37, of El Paso, Texas was exonerated Tuesday after spending nearly 20 years in prison for a double homicide that he did not commit. In 1995, Villegas, then only 16 years old, was wrongfully convicted of the murders…
The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP), acting as amicus, assisted veteran appellate and post-conviction attorney Marc Zilversmit in reversing the conviction of Jamal Trulove, wrongfully convicted of murder after a single eyewitness implicated him in a killing San Francisco. On…
Eyewitness misidentifications have played a part in almost half of the nation’s 1,063 exonerations since 1989. Studies show that witnesses frequently select the incorrect suspect due to influence, often unintentional, from the police. Based on these studies, best practice reforms…
Check out SF Weekly’s great cover story about NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell. Having served more than 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Maurice was exonerated in 2011 after NCIP lawyers Linda Starr and Paige Kaneb took…
There’s a new addition to the NCIP family! Maurice Caldwell’s son, Maurice Dawaun Caldwell, was born Sept. 6 at 10:28 p.m. Little Maurice weighed in at 7 pounds 6 ounces and is 19 inches long. Mother, son and family are all…
