Missouri Supreme Court in the Process of Deciding a Prosecutor’s Role in Reversing Wrongful Convictions
By Shellsea Lomeli ST. LOUIS, MO – The Missouri Supreme Court is currently considering a motion filed…
Netflix’s The Innocence Files: Arrest, Convict, Move on to the Next
By Nancy Martinez The final segment of Netflix’s The Innocence Files spotlights yet another major cause of…
Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Continue with Limitations of Human Memory
By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s “The Innocence Files” focuses on two wrongful convictions caused…
My View: Disgraced Forensic Dentist Goes on the Attack on Innocence Files
The Netflix series, the Innocence Files, tracks three stories over nine episodes. The first three focus on…
Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Opens with Bite Mark Evidence Leading to Wrongful Convictions
By Nancy Martinez The first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files question the validity of forensic…
Governor Commutes Sentences of Four People, Including Subject of Book, Represented by the Innocence Project
On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he granted five pardons and 21 commutations. In their press…
Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 1, Maurice Caldwell
Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 in San Francisco Superior Court in the June 1990 death of…
Paul Hildwin Walks Free after Spending Nearly Three Decades on Death Row
By Coco Wang Paul Hildwin pleaded no contest to second-degree murder before his second retrial for the…
Man Accused of Grisly Murder Proven Innocent by DNA Evidence
By Maxwell C. Myrhum After nearly 15 years, an El Dorado man wrongly convicted of a murder…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 39 – Tirpak Spends 25 Years Wrongly Imprisoned, Freed by SB 1437
Early in 2019, Michael Tirpak became the third person released from prison under SB 1437. He had…
Arkansas Cooperates with the Innocence Project and the ACLU to Conduct Testing for Ledell Lee’s Case
By Coco Wang Officials in Jacksonville, Arkansas, agreed to the DNA and fingerprint testing for Ledell Lee’s…
Flawed Evidence and Hasty Execution Leads to ACLU and Innocence Project Lawsuit against Arkansas
By Maxwell C. Myrhum The shroud of uncertainty behind the execution of Ledell Lee has lead…
Felipe Rodriguez Exonerated of All Charges in 1987 Queens Murder Case
(From Press Release – Innocence Project) – (New York – December 30, 2019) Today, the Hon. Joseph…
Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 20: George Powell – Bad Forensics Leads to Wrongful Conviction
From 2003 to 2008, George Powell III had been living in a town which had a large…
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Has Granted Rodney Reed an Indefinite Stay of Execution
(From Press Release – Innocence Project) On Friday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously voted…
A Numbers Game: CA Victim Compensation Board Denies Man Falsely Convicted for Decades $1 Million Claim
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – In the end, it appears Maurice Caldwell is, and…
Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 11 – Obie Anthony and Exonerated Nation
In 1995, Obie Anthony was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery. …
Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes
When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I…
Exonerees in 2018 Lost a Record Number of Years to Wrongful Imprisonment
Conviction Integrity Units in prosecutors’ offices have tripled since 2013 (From Press Release) – In 2018, the…
Reaction Pours Out to Gavin Newsom’s Moratorium on the Death Penalty
In his announcement on the moratorium, Governor Gavin Newsom framed the issue as a personal journey rooted…
