A wrongful conviction can take years of a person’s life away. New research shows that hundreds of people in New York have been cleared after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. The study was released by Davidoff Law…
A pardon of innocence, like the one that then-Governor Roy Cooper issued in November 2024 to Mark Crotts, is a required first step for someone who intends to seek restitution for a wrongful conviction (see related story, this edition). Individuals who…
Michigan and Indiana may share a lengthy border, but in terms of fairness they are often thousands of miles apart. Recently, local news outlets in Northern Indiana reported on the case of Iris Seabolt, an Elkhart County woman who spent…
A civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Robert Brook, an inmate killed while in custody in Marcy, has reached a multi-million dollar settlement. The exact monetary amount of the settlement was not known, though the Brooks' family has…
In a split decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a man who spent 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit can proceed against the lead investigator in the case. In December 1993, a…
According to The Innocence Project, his case is an unfortunate example of a broken system. Phillips had been convicted for a string of sex crimes that took place in 1982. The real perpetrator, Sidney Alvin Goodyear, was later linked to at…
Louisiana's top lawyer has taken an unusually combative stance against people the courts say were wrongfully locked up. In a deep dive for ProPublica, Richard A. Webster... In One State, Payouts for Wrongful Convictions Are Rare Louisiana's top lawyer has taken…
Elvis Brooks thought he had an airtight case when he applied for compensation from the state of Louisiana after he was wrongfully convicted in a fatal bar shooting that kept him in prison for more than four decades. The 69-year-old…
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