On May 24th, Oklahoma became the 50th and final state to pass a post-conviction DNA testing law. 306 people who were wrongfully convicted of crimes have been exonerated by DNA evidence in the United States since DNA testing first became…
NBC Bay Area News recently ran a story about the successful work of NCIP’s law students, who have helped win the freedom of 17 exonerees since 2001. “It’s pretty amazing. I get to set innocent people free from prison. Let…
Exonerees Antione Day and Jarrett Adams are tirelessly working with the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Life After Innocence program to help exonerees find housing after their release from prison. The Life After Justice Center in Chicago was created…
NCIP and Orrick, Herrington, Sutcliffe client George Souliotes, whose conviction was overturned last month after he demonstrated “actual innocence,” will be retried, Stanislaus County prosecutors announced Monday. Read the LA Times story here.
NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell and NCIP attorney Paige Kaneb recently spoke with ABC7 News about the struggle exonerees face after prison. In 1990, an eyewitness falsely identified Caldwell as a killer during a bad drug deal, and he wrongfully spent…
Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson was briefly jailed April 19, then released on bail after a district judge determined there was probable cause that Anderson violated state law by lying to a trial judge to win the conviction…
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Brian Banks, who was on his way to a big future in football when he was wrongfully convicted of rape in 2002, signed with the Atlanta Falcons today. Banks was a star football player at Long Beach Poly High School…
The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) and the California DNA Project (CDP) at Santa Clara University School of Law announced that on March 8, the Alameda County Superior Court overturned the wrongful conviction of Johnny Williams for sex crimes after…
At a hearing this morning in Oakland, Judge Jon Rolefson ordered his release after the District Attorney dismissed all charges stemming from an attempted murder. Thanks to the Keker & Van Nest team for their countless hours on this case!…
