Michael Crowe and a friend were declared factually innocent on Tuesday in the 1998 murder of Crowe’s sister. Michael Crowe was 14 when he was arrested and charged of the stabbing death of his sister Stephanie, at the family home in…
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…
Del Norte County District Attorney, Jon Alexander, is being investigated by the California State Bar for violating several rules of professional conduct. Alexander allegedly took a $6,000 loan from a defense attorney and then dismissed a case being handled by…
Professor Sheree Josephson of Weber State University in Utah recently published a study that once again proves that eyewitnesses struggle when trying to identify a suspect of another race. “Whites tended to make a quick decision with few comparison being…
A New York appeals court called for a hearing into whether death threats against David Lou’s defense attorney during his 1992 murder trial caused Lou to receive ineffective assistance of counsel. Lou was convicted in 1992 of the shooting death…
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…
Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey D. Clark are both serving life in prison for a murder they say they didn’t commit. However, the DNA evidence that could exonerate them has never been tested due to a Kentucky law that only…
After more than three decades, law enforcement is starting to implement the recommendations of more than 3,000 scientific studies, according to Gary Wells of Iowa State University who has been studying eyewitness identification problems for 35 years. According to a…
