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Missouri Death Row Prisoner Files Lawsuit against Gov. Mike Parson for Disbanding Board of Inquiry Investigating Man’s Innocence

Posted by Cheyenne Galloway
|Date: August 27, 2023
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Missouri Death Row Prisoner Files Lawsuit against Gov. Mike Parson for Disbanding Board of Inquiry Investigating Man’s Innocence

By Cheyenne Galloway JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Death row inmate Marcellus Williams filed a civil lawsuit agai ...

By Cheyenne Galloway JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Death row inmate Marcellus Williams filed a civil lawsuit against Missouri Gov. Mike Parson this past week for disbanding the board of inquiry responsible fo ...

August 27, 2023
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Midwest Innocence Project Claims DNA Evidence Proves Man’s Innocence of First Degree Murder of Reporter 24 Years Ago

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|Date: August 22, 2023
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Midwest Innocence Project Claims DNA Evidence Proves Man’s Innocence of First Degree Murder of Reporter 24 Years Ago

By Isabella Walker ST. LOUIS, MO - New DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams did not commit the murder o ...

By Isabella Walker ST. LOUIS, MO - New DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams did not commit the murder of Lishan Gayle, a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, according to the Midwest Innocence P ...

August 22, 2023
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Buffalo Man May Have Had 10 Years of Life ‘Stolen’ Because of Prosecutorial Misconduct, Editorial Board Charges

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|Date: August 13, 2023
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Buffalo Man May Have Had 10 Years of Life ‘Stolen’ Because of Prosecutorial Misconduct, Editorial Board Charges

By The Vanguard BUFFALO, NY – “Not simply that the criminal justice system might have sent yet another in ...

By The Vanguard BUFFALO, NY – “Not simply that the criminal justice system might have sent yet another innocent person to prison, but that Michael Agee may have had 10 years of his life stolen because ...

August 13, 2023
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Texas: Rosa Jimenez Exonerated of Crime that Never Took Place

Posted by Audrey Sawyer
|Date: August 10, 2023
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Texas: Rosa Jimenez Exonerated of Crime that Never Took Place

By Audrey Sawyer AUSTIN, TX - A wrongful conviction in Texas of Rosa Jimenez has been exonerated after 18 ...

By Audrey Sawyer AUSTIN, TX - A wrongful conviction in Texas of Rosa Jimenez has been exonerated after 18 years, after it was determined by medical experts that the death of a 21-month-old child noted ...

August 10, 2023
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Defense Lawyers for Man on Death Row Issue Censure of Prosecutors and Judge Following Recent Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Ruling

Posted by Claire Hsu
|Date: July 02, 2023
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Defense Lawyers for Man on Death Row Issue Censure of Prosecutors and Judge Following Recent Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Ruling

By Claire Hsu AUSTIN, TX - The attorney for Rodney Reed and the Innocence Project last week issued state ...

By Claire Hsu AUSTIN, TX - The attorney for Rodney Reed and the Innocence Project last week issued statements censuring the judge and prosecutors who prosecuted his initial trial, following the recen ...

July 02, 2023
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Looking Back: Increasing Awareness of Prosecutorial Misconduct Discipline and Accountability Hampered by Prosecutorial Immunity

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|Date: June 18, 2023
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Looking Back: Increasing Awareness of Prosecutorial Misconduct Discipline and Accountability Hampered by Prosecutorial Immunity

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "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 ...

June 18, 2023
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Innocence Project & Ethics Experts File Briefs Supporting OK Death Row Incarcerated Richard Glossip’s Innocence Case

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|Date: June 07, 2023
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Innocence Project & Ethics Experts File Briefs Supporting OK Death Row Incarcerated Richard Glossip’s Innocence Case

By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Separate friend-of-the-court briefs were filed this week by the ...

By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Separate friend-of-the-court briefs were filed this week by the Innocence Project and six legal scholars—they focus on legal ethics and the professional respo ...

June 07, 2023
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Innocence Project: After 33 Years of Being in Prison after Wrongful Conviction, Tyrone Day Exonerated

Posted by Brinda Kalita
|Date: May 28, 2023
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Innocence Project: After 33 Years of Being in Prison after Wrongful Conviction, Tyrone Day Exonerated

By Brinda Kalita and Leslie Garcia DALLAS, TX - One of the Innocence Project’s longest clients, Tyrone D ...

By Brinda Kalita and Leslie Garcia DALLAS, TX - One of the Innocence Project’s longest clients, Tyrone Day, was finally exonerated last week after the Dallas County District Attorney dismissed a 1990 ...

May 28, 2023
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Looking Back: Barry Gibbs and Scott Fappiano Give Presentations on Their Wrongful Convictions

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|Date: April 23, 2023
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Looking Back: Barry Gibbs and Scott Fappiano Give Presentations on Their Wrongful Convictions

By Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic "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 ...

April 23, 2023
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Innocence Project Decries Execution of Taylor in Missouri

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|Date: February 08, 2023
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Innocence Project Decries Execution of Taylor in Missouri

Special to the Vanguard Statement from the Innocence Project... Today, the state of Missouri executed Leo ...

Special to the Vanguard Statement from the Innocence Project... Today, the state of Missouri executed Leonard “Raheem” Taylor even though a full investigation of his innocence claim was never conducte ...

February 08, 2023
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Man Released in Georgia After More Than 25 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment; Cleared of 1996 Death of Friend

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|Date: December 09, 2022
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Man Released in Georgia After More Than 25 Years of Wrongful Imprisonment; Cleared of 1996 Death of Friend

Special to the Vanguard Rome, GA - Darrell Lee Clark walked out of the Floyd County Jail and into the arm ...

Special to the Vanguard Rome, GA - Darrell Lee Clark walked out of the Floyd County Jail and into the arms of family in time to celebrate his first Christmas as a free man in more than two decades on ...

December 09, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

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|Date: October 24, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

A few weeks ago Jarrett Adams received the Vanguard Justice Award going to a person wrongly convicted. H ...

A few weeks ago Jarrett Adams received the Vanguard Justice Award going to a person wrongly convicted. Here is our podcast with him from March 2022. Jarrett Adams was a high school student and made o ...

October 24, 2022
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Guest Commentary: How Many More Adnan Syeds Are in the Justice System with No Journalists to Advocate for Them?

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|Date: September 26, 2022
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Guest Commentary: How Many More Adnan Syeds Are in the Justice System with No Journalists to Advocate for Them?

By William Hughes The news that a judge in Baltimore overturned Adnan Syed’s murder conviction Monday sho ...

By William Hughes The news that a judge in Baltimore overturned Adnan Syed’s murder conviction Monday should comfort the afflicted who are caught up in the strife of wrongful conviction and afflict th ...

September 26, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 166: Why Innocent People Can’t Get Out of Prison

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|Date: September 19, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 166: Why Innocent People Can’t Get Out of Prison

https://youtu.be/NdorxRHte0Q Northeastern University Professor Daniel Medwed’s book Barred comes out on S ...

https://youtu.be/NdorxRHte0Q Northeastern University Professor Daniel Medwed’s book Barred comes out on September 20. The book focuses on the wrongly-convicted people who are unable to overcome the c ...

September 19, 2022
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Looking Back: Critique of Innocence Project Report on Exoneree Compensation, ‘Making Up for Lost Time’

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 17, 2022
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Looking Back: Critique of Innocence Project Report on Exoneree Compensation, ‘Making Up for Lost Time’

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

by Jeffrey Deskovic "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 ...

July 17, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 11, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

https://soundcloud.com/davisvanguard/everyday-injustice-podcast-episode-148-jarrett-adams-from-wrongful-c ...

https://soundcloud.com/davisvanguard/everyday-injustice-podcast-episode-148-jarrett-adams-from-wrongful-conviction-to-attorney Jarrett Adams was a high school student and made one mistake—he went to a ...

July 11, 2022
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Innocence Project’s Senior Legal Counsel Appointed U.S. District Judge for Eastern District of New York

Posted by Nora Dahl
|Date: June 17, 2022
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Innocence Project’s Senior Legal Counsel Appointed U.S. District Judge for Eastern District of New York

By Nora Dahl NEW YORK, NY - Nina Morrison, the Innocence Project's senior litigation counsel, was appoint ...

By Nora Dahl NEW YORK, NY - Nina Morrison, the Innocence Project's senior litigation counsel, was appointed as U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York by the U.S. Senate this week. “N ...

June 17, 2022
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Looking Back: The Story of Freddie Peacock

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|Date: June 12, 2022
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Looking Back: The Story of Freddie Peacock

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

by Jeffrey Deskovic "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 ...

June 12, 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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Looking Back: There Is a Strong Need for Non-DNA Innocence Projects

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|Date: May 15, 2022
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Looking Back: There Is a Strong Need for Non-DNA Innocence Projects

by Jeffrey Deskovic "Looking back" will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a c ...

by Jeffrey Deskovic "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 ...

May 15, 2022
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