Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Orson Mozee were released last Tuesday after Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins recommended that their murder convictions be overturned. In 2000, Allen and Mozee were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the…
The National Institute of Justice released a report today which explores the feasibility of using a learning-from-error model in criminal justice. The report, Mending Justice: Sentinel Events Reviews, draws on lessons from the medical and aviation fields and offers perspectives on using…
South Africans who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes now have a resource to turn to for assistance in having their convictions overturned. The Innocence Project South Africa, a pro bono legal clinic, recently registered with the Innocence Network and,…
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 Department of Justice recently agreed to waive procedural bars to re-open and review more than 2,000 criminal cases between 1985 and 2000 in which the FBI conducted microscopic hair analysis of crime scene evidence. This comes after three men were exonerated…
