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In recent weeks, a series of overturned wrongful convictions – including one in Cook County, Illinois, and two in Los Angeles County, California – have been credited, in part, to the work of ...
[6] [7] In Southwest of Salem Esquenazi follows the pivotal court hearing during which the women challenged their convictions, as well as the hearings that followed. Anna Vasquez was given parole in 2012 while the others were released on bail in 2013 with the assistance of the Innocence Project of Texas .
MSNBC has announced a new docuseries titled “The Sing Sing Chronicles,” a four-episode investigative piece that will tell the story of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, an actor from A24’s ...
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.
Last year, Elkhart agreed to pay Keith Cooper $7.5 million over his wrongful conviction for an armed robbery that sent him to prison for more than eight years. Cooper's co-defendant, Michael ...
On appeal, the Supreme Court of Illinois reversed the convictions of Williams and Rainge in 1982 because the defendants' lawyer was incompetent and was the subject of a legal disciplinary hearing. Prosecutors offered Paula Gray a deal to get out of jail if she testified she had seen Jimerson, Williams and Rainge shoot the victims and rape ...
The Milgaard case has been the subject of two movies: the 1992 documentary The David Milgaard Story, directed by Vic Sarin, and the 1999 docudrama Milgaard, directed by Stephen Williams and starring Ian Tracey. [23] The song "Wheat Kings" by the Tragically Hip (from their 1992 album Fully Completely) contains references to the story. [25]
A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge on Monday vacated the conviction for Syed, who was the subject of the podcast, "Serial." Syed, 41, had help from the University of Baltimore School of Law's ...