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- Robert Roberson Is on Texas Death Row for a Crime That Never Occurred https://innocenceproject.org/what-to-know-about-robert-roberson-on-texas-death-row-for-a-crime-that-never-occurred/ 8 comments
- MythBusters Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence https://innocenceproject.org/discovery-channel-mythbuster-john-galvan-wrongful-conviction-innocence/ 177 comments
- Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment https://innocenceproject.org/jonathan-smith-walks-free-after-21-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment-in-maryland/ 132 comments
- New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity https://innocenceproject.org/new-mexico-historic-legislation-to-end-qualified-immunity/ 313 comments
- Man Convicted Based on Erroneous Evidence Exonerated After 25 Years http://www.innocenceproject.org/news-events-exonerations/north-carolina-man-convicted-based-on-erroneous-microscopic-hair-evidence-exonerated-after-wrongly-serving-25-years 71 comments
- DNA Freed Cornelius Dupree 30 Years After Wrongful Conviction https://innocenceproject.org/cornelius-dupree-dna-testing-set-me-free-30-years-after-my-wrongful-conviction/ 7 comments upliftingnews
- How Discovery Channel’s ‘MythBusters’ Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence https://innocenceproject.org/discovery-channel-mythbuster-john-galvan-wrongful-conviction-innocence/ 117 comments nottheonion
- Former Navy CPO released from prison after 30 years for wrongful conviction https://innocenceproject.org/herman-williams-is-exonerated-after-nearly-three-decades-of-wrongful-conviction/ 70 comments navy
- Why Holding Prosecutors Accountable Is So Difficult https://innocenceproject.org/why-holding-prosecutors-accountable-is-so-difficult/?fbclid=IwAR24UfxfNxa_9bWq6cxp18h-_1Nj2GTEjST38XV6ndX1XisBKvrB_y3TUA0 6 comments law
- Robert DuBoise Officially Exonerated from Murder Charge After Nearly 37 Years behind bars https://www.innocenceproject.org/robert-duboise-officially-exonerated-of-murder-after-nearly-37-years/ 11 comments law
- Innocence Project: Still No Justice for Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin https://www.innocenceproject.org/still-no-justice-for-clemente-aguirre-jarquin/ 3 comments law
- Innocence Blog: Op-Ed: Former Innocence Project Attorney Says that System is Overwhelmed with Wrongful Convictions http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/OpEd_Former_Innocence_Project_Attorney_Says_that_System_is_Overwhelmed_with_Wrongful_Convictions.php 5 comments law
- Mississippi Poised to Execute Man Without DNA Testing Evidence http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/mississippi_poised_to_execute_man_without_dna_testing_evidence.php 9 comments politics
- Dennis Maher was wrongly convicted and spent 19 years in a Massachusetts prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2003. --"You just say 1 percent of all the people in prison are innocent. That's gonna be 20,000 people. That's a lot of people." http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/finding_happily_ever_after.php 19 comments politics
- 29 people exonerated this year as a result of the efforts of the Innocence Network. Let's hope it helps "put checks on the enormous power that police and prosecutors wield and improve public defender systems.” http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/The_Innocence_Network_Recaps_the_Years_Exonerations.php 12 comments law
- On December 7, 2000, Claude Jones was executed in Texas for a murder he always maintained he didn’t commit. Nearly a decade after his execution, DNA testing proved in 2010 that the central evidence tying Jones to the crime scene — a hair fragment — was not his http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/injustice_in_texas_the_claude_jones_case.php 1140 comments science
- Ten years after Texas executes man for murder the only physical evidence against him, a hair prosecutors said could only belong to him, is shown not to be his. http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/injustice_in_texas_the_claude_jones_case.php 126 comments reddit.com
- DNA testing obtained by the Innocence Project has proven that a Texas man was executed in 2000 based on false evidence. http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/injustice_in_texas_the_claude_jones_case.php?index=53 55 comments politics
- Legal liars in New Orleans to get the ax. Wonderful, novel idea. http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/2722.php 9 comments law
- 35 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit - freed by DNA forensics. James Bain was 19 when he was arrested. http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/2301.php 11 comments politics
- Over 51 people have been falsely accused of crimes for which they were sentenced on the testimony of witnesses with incentives to lie (snitches). A detailed account of a gaping flaw in the legal system. http://www.innocenceproject.org/docs/snitchsystembooklet.pdf 3 comments science
- 6 men sentenced to die, exonerated after DNA excluded them from suspicion http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/1081.php 29 comments reddit.com
- Wrongly jailed for 18 years, man finally released after DNA clears him. Why was he convicted? The usual suspects - bogus eye witness "identification", bogus forensic science, etc etc http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/833.php 4 comments reddit.com
- Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn't commit? Happens all the time. http://www.innocenceproject.org/fix/false-confessions.php 17 comments reddit.com