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Another Murder Conviction Vacated in Philly after Case ‘Tainted’ by Bad Cop

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|Date: August 20, 2023
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Another Murder Conviction Vacated in Philly after Case ‘Tainted’ by Bad Cop

By The Vanguard PHILADELPHIA, PA – The 2012 murder conviction of Donta Regustors for the 2010 fatal shoot ...

By The Vanguard PHILADELPHIA, PA – The 2012 murder conviction of Donta Regustors for the 2010 fatal shooting of Johnathan Wilson, who was the unintended victim of an early-morning shootout, was vacate ...

August 20, 2023
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Man Exonerated After 33 Years in Prison for Wrongful Attempted Murder Conviction

Posted by Sophia Barberini
|Date: May 26, 2023
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Man Exonerated After 33 Years in Prison for Wrongful Attempted Murder Conviction

By Sophia Barberini LOS ANGELES, CA – Daniel Saldaña’s exoneration was announced during a press conferenc ...

By Sophia Barberini LOS ANGELES, CA – Daniel Saldaña’s exoneration was announced during a press conference Thursday by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón after Saldaña spent 33 years w ...

May 26, 2023
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Exonerated: Conviction of Maurice Hastings Vacated in 1983 Murder

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 31, 2022
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Exonerated: Conviction of Maurice Hastings Vacated in 1983 Murder

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – A man, Maurice Hastings, who has served more tha ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – A man, Maurice Hastings, who has served more than 38 years in state prison for the 1983 murder of Roberta Wydermyer and two attempted murders, ...

October 31, 2022
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Innocence Project and LA DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit Worked Together to Free Torres after 21 Years of Wrongful Incarceration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 03, 2022
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Innocence Project and LA DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit Worked Together to Free Torres after 21 Years of Wrongful Incarceration

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – On Wednesday, the Los Angeles DA’s office along ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Los Angeles, CA – On Wednesday, the Los Angeles DA’s office along with the California Innocence Project announced the exoneration of Alexander Torres, who was wr ...

June 03, 2022
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Vanguard Investigation: The Puzzling Case of Neron Dozier in Queens

Posted by Luke Kyaw
|Date: November 10, 2021
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Vanguard Investigation: The Puzzling Case of Neron Dozier in Queens

By Luke Kyaw, Alexander Pleitez, Beth Miller, and Stephanie Boulos QUEENS, NY - The criminal justice syst ...

By Luke Kyaw, Alexander Pleitez, Beth Miller, and Stephanie Boulos QUEENS, NY - The criminal justice system is not known for being perfect. In fact, it is often scrutinized by its ability to dismantle ...

November 10, 2021
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Adds Five New Convictions to Be Vacated after Corrupt Actions of Rogue Band of Crooked Cook County Cops

Posted by Amy Fullerton
|Date: November 06, 2021
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Adds Five New Convictions to Be Vacated after Corrupt Actions of Rogue Band of Crooked Cook County Cops

By Amy Fullerton CHICAGO, IL – After the misconduct committed by former Chicago Police Sergeant Ronald Wa ...

By Amy Fullerton CHICAGO, IL – After the misconduct committed by former Chicago Police Sergeant Ronald Watts and a rogue band of crooked cops, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is moving to vacate ...

November 06, 2021
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Philly District Attorney Files 6 Motions Holding Police Dept in Contempt of Court for Not Providing Officer Info

Posted by Carson Eschen
|Date: August 16, 2021
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Philly District Attorney Files 6 Motions Holding Police Dept in Contempt of Court for Not Providing Officer Info

By Carson Eschen PHILADELPHIA, PA - In an unprecedented move, six motions to hold the Philadelphia Polic ...

By Carson Eschen PHILADELPHIA, PA - In an unprecedented move, six motions to hold the Philadelphia Police Department in contempt of court were filed last week, following the department’s alleged fail ...

August 16, 2021
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New Forensic Evidence, Suppressed Evidence Exonerates Chester Hollman – Wrongfully Convicted for 28 Years

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 18, 2021
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New Forensic Evidence, Suppressed Evidence Exonerates Chester Hollman – Wrongfully Convicted for 28 Years

(Editor’s note: The Philadelphia DA’s Office released the first of what will be regular reports on the wo ...

(Editor’s note: The Philadelphia DA’s Office released the first of what will be regular reports on the work of the CIU, which in fewer than four years has helped secure the exonerations of 20 people i ...

June 18, 2021
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Krasner’s Office Releases Report on More than 20 People Exonerated During His First Term in Office

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 16, 2021
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Krasner’s Office Releases Report on More than 20 People Exonerated During His First Term in Office

By David M. Greenwald Philadelphia – Calling the work of the Philadephia DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit “ ...

By David M. Greenwald Philadelphia – Calling the work of the Philadephia DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit “historic” and an “incredible achievement, especially compared to what happened in prior adminis ...

June 16, 2021
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Guest Commentary: What Larry Krasner’s Primary Win Means for Criminal Legal Reform – and How He Can Go Further

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|Date: May 29, 2021
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Guest Commentary: What Larry Krasner’s Primary Win Means for Criminal Legal Reform – and How He Can Go Further

Krasner has tackled some of the great injustices that his predecessors carried out. He also has more work ...

Krasner has tackled some of the great injustices that his predecessors carried out. He also has more work to do to effectively improve the criminal legal system in Philadelphia. By Reggie Shuford The ...

May 29, 2021
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Philly Court Orders New Trial for Convicted Man after Nearly 40 Years

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: May 24, 2021
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Philly Court Orders New Trial for Convicted Man after Nearly 40 Years

By Esha Kher PHILADELPHIA, PA - Five years after doubts began circulating in the news media about a lack ...

By Esha Kher PHILADELPHIA, PA - Five years after doubts began circulating in the news media about a lack of evidence and integrity in the conviction of Larry Walker, the Philadelphia Court of Common P ...

May 24, 2021
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Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit Secures 20th Exoneration Since 2018

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|Date: May 06, 2021
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Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit Secures 20th Exoneration Since 2018

By Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA– The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas vacated the 2010 murder conviction ...

By Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA– The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas vacated the 2010 murder conviction and sentence of Obina Onyiah after the District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit (C ...

May 06, 2021
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Another Exoneration – 17th – of Wrongfully Convicted Person in Philly

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: January 02, 2021
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Another Exoneration – 17th – of Wrongfully Convicted Person in Philly

By Jose Medina PHILADELPHIA – Many people are wrongfully convicted of crimes in the U.S., but very few ar ...

By Jose Medina PHILADELPHIA – Many people are wrongfully convicted of crimes in the U.S., but very few are exonerated—Robert Outlaw was one of those few, thanks to the diligent work of Philadelphia Di ...

January 02, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Is Not Putting Forward a Reform Agenda

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 16, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Is Not Putting Forward a Reform Agenda

by David M. Greenwald It has been two years since both the Davis Enterprise and Sacramento Bee declared t ...

by David M. Greenwald It has been two years since both the Davis Enterprise and Sacramento Bee declared that Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig was one of if not the most progressive prosecutor in the state. ...

August 16, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Why Don’t We Have a Sentence Review Unit?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 15, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Why Don’t We Have a Sentence Review Unit?

On Monday, Ajay Dev's case will be back in Judge Janene Beronio's Yolo County courtroom. As most who have ...

On Monday, Ajay Dev's case will be back in Judge Janene Beronio's Yolo County courtroom. As most who have read these pages for any length of time know, I have long believed that Ajay Dev was wrongly c ...

December 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2019
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Commentary: Zero Is the Number Freed by Conviction Integrity Units Here

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA ...

According to an article this week in the Washington Post, there are now 49 conviction review units in DA offices across the US – most of those started in the last five years. The Washington Post on Tu ...

November 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: If Reisig Wants to Be a Progressive Prosecutor – Here’s His Chance in the Dev Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: If Reisig Wants to Be a Progressive Prosecutor – Here’s His Chance in the Dev Case

District Attorney Jeff Reisig has, strangely enough, two reputations. Some will tell you he’s actually o ...

District Attorney Jeff Reisig has, strangely enough, two reputations. Some will tell you he’s actually one of the more progressive prosecutors in the state. That’s what an editorial in the Enterpris ...

July 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not suffi ...

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not sufficient to produce proper oversight. In the Orange County jailhouse informant scandal, a case th ...

April 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform rema ...

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform remains elusive. This past week there was an op-ed in the New York Times, “There’s a Wave of New P ...

December 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: A Way Forward for Criminal Justice Reform If the DA Wants It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 22, 2018
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Commentary: A Way Forward for Criminal Justice Reform If the DA Wants It

This week, the Vanguard column, supported by information from across the country, created a bit of a stir ...

This week, the Vanguard column, supported by information from across the country, created a bit of a stir with correspondence coming in locally. Looking at Philadelphia as a model for criminal justic ...

August 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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