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EXONERATIONS: Part VIII – Trends Show Decrease of Official Misconduct in Some Cases, Increase in Others

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|Date: September 28, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part VIII – Trends Show Decrease of Official Misconduct in Some Cases, Increase in Others

(This is the eighth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by ...

(This is the eighth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By Linhchi Nguyen ...

September 28, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part VII – Misconduct by Police and Prosecutors at Trial Cause of Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: September 27, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part VII – Misconduct by Police and Prosecutors at Trial Cause of Wrongful Convictions

(This is the sixth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced b ...

(This is the sixth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By Linhchi Nguye ...

September 27, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part V – Fabricated Evidence: Forensic Deception, Planted Evidence and Forged Confessions

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|Date: September 25, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part V – Fabricated Evidence: Forensic Deception, Planted Evidence and Forged Confessions

By Kelsea Valerio (This is the fifth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonera ...

By Kelsea Valerio (This is the fifth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) ...

September 25, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part IV – Misconduct in Interrogations – A Legal Gray Area

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|Date: September 24, 2020
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EXONERATIONS: Part IV – Misconduct in Interrogations – A Legal Gray Area

(This is the fourth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by ...

(This is the fourth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara H. Stephens) By Layla Mustafa ...

September 24, 2020
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Judge Halts Death Penalty Proceedings, Orders DNA Evidence Granted to Pervis Payne

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|Date: September 17, 2020
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Judge Halts Death Penalty Proceedings, Orders DNA Evidence Granted to Pervis Payne

By Alana Bleimann TENNESSEE - This morning, September 16, 2020, Tennessee death row inmate Pervis Payne w ...

By Alana Bleimann TENNESSEE - This morning, September 16, 2020, Tennessee death row inmate Pervis Payne was told he has a second chance at life. Currently spending his 33rd year on death row in Riverb ...

September 17, 2020
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Innocence Project Helps Free Robert DuBoise after Nearly 37 Years in Prison, Thanks to DNA Evidence

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|Date: August 29, 2020
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Innocence Project Helps Free Robert DuBoise after Nearly 37 Years in Prison, Thanks to DNA Evidence

By Cailin Garcia TAMPA, FL – Robert DuBoise Thursday had an emotional reunion with his family after servi ...

By Cailin Garcia TAMPA, FL – Robert DuBoise Thursday had an emotional reunion with his family after serving almost 37 years in prison—for crimes he didn’t commit. In 1983, DuBoise was wrongfully arres ...

August 29, 2020
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Facing Dec. Execution, Pervis Payne Asks Court for DNA Testing as New Evidence in 30-Year-Old Case

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|Date: August 08, 2020
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Facing Dec. Execution, Pervis Payne Asks Court for DNA Testing as New Evidence in 30-Year-Old Case

By Angelina Caplanis TENNESSEE – DNA testing of 30-year-old evidence, including the murder weapon, may e ...

By Angelina Caplanis TENNESSEE – DNA testing of 30-year-old evidence, including the murder weapon, may exonerate Pervis Payne months before his execution date on December 3, 2020. Payne—an intellectu ...

August 08, 2020
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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 Santae 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

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|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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