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 exonerate Pervis…
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,…
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…
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,…
Looking Back: The Complicity of Silence
“Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester…
Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 2, Franky Carrillo
Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files.” The story begins…
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,…
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…
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…
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 that…
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— incarcerated witnesses…
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…
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 of…
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 convictions caused…
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 on…
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 forensic…
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 press…
Wrongful Conviction Project – Episode 1, Maurice Caldwell
Maurice Caldwell was convicted in 1991 in San Francisco Superior Court in the June 1990 death of…
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…
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…