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FBI Hair Analysis Called Into Question After Santae Tribble’s 2012 Exoneration

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|Date: August 04, 2020
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FBI Hair Analysis Called Into Question After Santae Tribble’s 2012 Exoneration

By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – After spending 28 years wrongly convicted of and imprisoned for murder, ...

By Lauren Smith WASHINGTON D.C. – After spending 28 years wrongly convicted of and imprisoned for murder, the exoneration of Sanate Tribble in 2012 sparked a review and investigation of FBI hair analy ...

August 04, 2020
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Wrongful Convictions Disproportionately Impact Black and Brown People

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 30, 2020
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Wrongful Convictions Disproportionately Impact Black and Brown People

In two weeks, Laurese Glover will join us for our 10th annual Vanguard fundraiser. The keynote speaker i ...

In two weeks, Laurese Glover will join us for our 10th annual Vanguard fundraiser. The keynote speaker is Mark Godsey, the Director of the Ohio Innocence Project. Laurese Glover, along with Eugene Jo ...

July 30, 2020
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Innocent Black Man is Six Months Away from Execution

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|Date: July 25, 2020
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Innocent Black Man is Six Months Away from Execution

By Gabriela Tsudik TENNESSEE – About four months from now, on Dec. 3, 2020, Pervis Payne, 53, is schedule ...

By Gabriela Tsudik TENNESSEE – About four months from now, on Dec. 3, 2020, Pervis Payne, 53, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee, after spending 32 years on death row. Payne is an African-Americ ...

July 25, 2020
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Looking Back: The Complicity of Silence

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|Date: July 12, 2020
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Looking Back: The Complicity of Silence

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The West ...

"Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as well as across the c ...

July 12, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo

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|Date: June 12, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begi ...

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begins in 1991 when Donald Sarpy was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting as he was standing in t ...

June 12, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 69 – Wife of Walter Barton Speaks Out

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|Date: June 09, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 69 – Wife of Walter Barton Speaks Out

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of kill ...

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of killing an 81-year-old acquaintance nearly three decades ago. But the Innocence Project and others ...

June 09, 2020
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The Connection between Police Brutality and Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: June 03, 2020
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The Connection between Police Brutality and Wrongful Convictions

Statement from the Innocence Network: On May 25th, George Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was killed by p ...

Statement from the Innocence Network: On May 25th, George Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was killed by police after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd’s life and future is ...

June 03, 2020
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Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence

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|Date: May 27, 2020
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Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence

By Murcel Rahimi GEORGIA - Johnny Lee Gates is set free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georg ...

By Murcel Rahimi GEORGIA - Johnny Lee Gates is set free, 43 years after being sentenced to death in Georgia for a murder he has steadfastly maintained he did not commit. More than 40 years after he wa ...

May 27, 2020
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Minnesota Adopts Eyewitness ID Law to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: May 26, 2020
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Minnesota Adopts Eyewitness ID Law to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

By Linh Nguyen SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA-- On May 16, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation th ...

By Linh Nguyen SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA-- On May 16, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation that requires law enforcement in the state to adopt scientifically-based lineup procedures to pre ...

May 26, 2020
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Oklahoma Becomes Third in the Nation to Require Statewide Tracking of Jailhouse Informants

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|Date: May 23, 2020
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Oklahoma Becomes Third in the Nation to Require Statewide Tracking of Jailhouse Informants

When Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law cracking down on unreliable jailhouse informants— inc ...

When Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a new law cracking down on unreliable jailhouse informants— incarcerated witnesses who testify in exchange for leniency in their own cases – Oklahoma moved ah ...

May 23, 2020
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Missouri Supreme Court in the Process of Deciding a Prosecutor’s Role in Reversing Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: April 30, 2020
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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 by ...

By Shellsea Lomeli ST. LOUIS, MO - The Missouri Supreme Court is currently considering a motion filed by St. Louis Circut Attorney Kim Gardner for a new trial for Lamar Johnson on the basis of a wrong ...

April 30, 2020
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Netflix’s The Innocence Files: Arrest, Convict, Move on to the Next

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|Date: April 27, 2020
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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 o ...

By Nancy Martinez The final segment of Netflix’s The Innocence Files spotlights yet another major cause of wrongful convictions—prosecutorial misconduct—by following the stories of three exonerated me ...

April 27, 2020
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Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Continue with Limitations of Human Memory

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|Date: April 23, 2020
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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 convict ...

By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s "The Innocence Files" focuses on two wrongful convictions caused by mistaken witness identifications. Episodes Four and Five investigate the case of ...

April 23, 2020
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My View: Disgraced Forensic Dentist Goes on the Attack on Innocence Files

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|Date: April 18, 2020
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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 ...

The Netflix series, the Innocence Files, tracks three stories over nine episodes. The first three focus on the story of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer. Those who have read Radley Balko’s book are w ...

April 18, 2020
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Netflix’s ‘Innocence Files’ Opens with Bite Mark Evidence Leading to Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: April 17, 2020
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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 fore ...

By Nancy Martinez The first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files question the validity of forensic science, with three cases of wrongful convictions caused by the admissibility of bite mark ...

April 17, 2020
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Governor Commutes Sentences of Four People, Including Subject of Book, Represented by the Innocence Project

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|Date: March 29, 2020
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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 pre ...

On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he granted five pardons and 21 commutations. In their press release, the governor’s office noted, “These clemency grants were in progress before the COV ...

March 29, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 1, Maurice Caldwell

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|Date: March 19, 2020
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Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 1, Maurice Caldwell

Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 in San Francisco Superior Court in the June 1990 death of Judy Aco ...

Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 in San Francisco Superior Court in the June 1990 death of Judy Acosta, who was shot dead during an apparent drug deal that went sour in the Alemany public housin ...

March 19, 2020
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Paul Hildwin Walks Free after Spending Nearly Three Decades on Death Row

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|Date: March 13, 2020
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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 de ...

By Coco Wang Paul Hildwin pleaded no contest to second-degree murder before his second retrial for the death penalty and was released with time served on March 9, 2020. Hildwin was sentenced to the de ...

March 13, 2020
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Man Accused of Grisly Murder Proven Innocent by DNA Evidence

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|Date: February 14, 2020
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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 decades ago ha ...

By Maxwell C. Myrhum After nearly 15 years, an El Dorado man wrongly convicted of a murder decades ago has been released from prison with the help of the Innocence Project. Ricky Davis was released fr ...

February 14, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 39 – Tirpak Spends 25 Years Wrongly Imprisoned, Freed by SB 1437

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|Date: February 05, 2020
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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 served t ...

Early in 2019, Michael Tirpak became the third person released from prison under SB 1437. He had served time in prison since 1996 following his conviction on first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he w ...

February 05, 2020
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