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Gun Test in Stankewitz Case Shows Gun in Evidence Is Not the Murder Weapon

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2023
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Gun Test in Stankewitz Case Shows Gun in Evidence Is Not the Murder Weapon

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Fresno, CA – The attorneys seeking to get Douglas “Chief” Stankewi ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Fresno, CA – The attorneys seeking to get Douglas “Chief” Stankewitz a new trial and hopefully released after being in prison since 1978 now have a big new piece ...

March 23, 2023
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Wrongfully Convicted Man Urges State of Missouri to Stop Using Jailhouse Informants

Posted by Leslie Acevedo
|Date: March 22, 2023
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Wrongfully Convicted Man Urges State of Missouri to Stop Using Jailhouse Informants

By Leslie Acevedo JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Lamar Johnson—released in February after spending nearly 28 years ...

By Leslie Acevedo JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Lamar Johnson—released in February after spending nearly 28 years behind bars for a murder he has always denied committing—urged the State of Missouri to stop u ...

March 22, 2023
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Man Released After 34 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated Following Eyewitness Misidentification

Posted by Belen Avelar
|Date: March 15, 2023
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Man Released After 34 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated Following Eyewitness Misidentification

By Belen Avelar FT LAUDERDALE, FL - After an intensive two-and-a-half-year collaborative investigation w ...

By Belen Avelar FT LAUDERDALE, FL - After an intensive two-and-a-half-year collaborative investigation with the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF), the Conviction Review Unit (CRU) in the Broward Cou ...

March 15, 2023
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Brooklyn DA Office Clears Sheldon Thomas After Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for More Than 18 Years

Posted by Julie McCaffrey
|Date: March 14, 2023
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Brooklyn DA Office Clears Sheldon Thomas After Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for More Than 18 Years

By Julie McCaffrey BROOKLYN, NY - Sheldon Thomas, who spent more than 18 years behind bars because of an ...

By Julie McCaffrey BROOKLYN, NY - Sheldon Thomas, who spent more than 18 years behind bars because of an eyewitness misidentification allegedly orchestrated by detectives, is finally free after being ...

March 14, 2023
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Looking Back: Finally, Punishment for Police Who Extract False Confessions by Torture

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|Date: March 12, 2023
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Looking Back: Finally, Punishment for Police Who Extract False Confessions by Torture

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 ...

March 12, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 190: The Exoneration of Andrew Krivak

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|Date: March 06, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 190: The Exoneration of Andrew Krivak

https://youtu.be/rAehrkahYSo Andrew Krivak was acquitted last week in a second trial, after spending 24 y ...

https://youtu.be/rAehrkahYSo Andrew Krivak was acquitted last week in a second trial, after spending 24 years in prison for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. The jury spend just three hours ...

March 06, 2023
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Bonta Announces First State Post-Conviction Unit; Yolo’s About to Turn a Decade Old

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: February 21, 2023
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Bonta Announces First State Post-Conviction Unit; Yolo’s About to Turn a Decade Old

Up to 5,700 Wrongful Convictions in California, Experts Estimate By Robert J Hansen California Attorney G ...

Up to 5,700 Wrongful Convictions in California, Experts Estimate By Robert J Hansen California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office announced the first-ever Post-Conviction Justice Unit (PCJU), to cond ...

February 21, 2023
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Looking Back: NY Must Pass Legislation to Protects Youths from Invasive Police Interrogations

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|Date: February 12, 2023
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Looking Back: NY Must Pass Legislation to Protects Youths from Invasive Police Interrogations

By Jeffrey Deskovic This article was originally published this past week by the Queens Daily Eagle Coerce ...

By Jeffrey Deskovic This article was originally published this past week by the Queens Daily Eagle Coerced, false confessions have caused wrongful convictions in 29 percent of the DNA-proven wrongful ...

February 12, 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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Judge Grants Motion to Test Gun in 45-Year-Old Wrongful Conviction Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 03, 2023
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Judge Grants Motion to Test Gun in 45-Year-Old Wrongful Conviction Case

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Fresno, CA – The legendary 88-year-old attorney Tony Serra on Tues ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Fresno, CA – The legendary 88-year-old attorney Tony Serra on Tuesday in Fresno Superior Court made an impassioned plea to free on OR his client, Douglas “Chief” ...

February 03, 2023
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Q&A: DPIC Director Explains Why Cooper Investigation Was Flawed; Maintains Innocence Claims

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 24, 2023
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Q&A: DPIC Director Explains Why Cooper Investigation Was Flawed; Maintains Innocence Claims

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Last week a report from a special counsel, appointed by Governor N ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Last week a report from a special counsel, appointed by Governor Newsom to look into the case of Kevin Cooper, appeared to close the door on the possibility of h ...

January 24, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Episode 184: Wrongful Conviction for a Crime That Never Happened

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|Date: January 23, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Episode 184: Wrongful Conviction for a Crime That Never Happened

This week on Everyday Injustice, Jessica Henry talks about people who are convicted of crimes that never ...

This week on Everyday Injustice, Jessica Henry talks about people who are convicted of crimes that never happened. There are whole classes of such wrongful convictions—some based on flawed forensic sc ...

January 23, 2023
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Death Row Defense Team Challenges Probe of Kevin Cooper Murder Conviction, Maintains Law Enforcement ‘Framed’ Man 38 Years Ago

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|Date: January 18, 2023
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Death Row Defense Team Challenges Probe of Kevin Cooper Murder Conviction, Maintains Law Enforcement ‘Framed’ Man 38 Years Ago

By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – The defense team in a high profile murder case has charged it was ...

By The Vanguard Staff LOS ANGELES, CA – The defense team in a high profile murder case has charged it was “shocked” by the CA Parole Board’s agreement last week that the investigation of death row inm ...

January 18, 2023
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Looking Back: Frank Sterling Is Exonerated, Part 2

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|Date: January 02, 2023
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Looking Back: Frank Sterling Is Exonerated, Part 2

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 ...

January 02, 2023
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Guest Commentary: The Most Lonely in Prison? Those Who Never Committed a Crime

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|Date: December 18, 2022
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Guest Commentary: The Most Lonely in Prison? Those Who Never Committed a Crime

The innocent ones are easy to spot when they enter the system. by Edward Contreras For 27 years I have se ...

The innocent ones are easy to spot when they enter the system. by Edward Contreras For 27 years I have seen people enter prison under all kinds of circumstances. Some say they were in a crash while dr ...

December 18, 2022
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Looking Back: Lessons from the Caravella Exoneration – Part 2

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|Date: December 11, 2022
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Looking Back: Lessons from the Caravella Exoneration – Part 2

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 ...

December 11, 2022
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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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Bronx Man Ordered Released after 22 Years in Prison – Prosecution Opposes

Posted by Jessica Weisman
|Date: December 07, 2022
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Bronx Man Ordered Released after 22 Years in Prison – Prosecution Opposes

By Jessica Weisman BRONX, NY - Andre Brown, after finally have his conviction overturned and after spendi ...

By Jessica Weisman BRONX, NY - Andre Brown, after finally have his conviction overturned and after spending 22 years in prison for alleged attempted murder back in 1999, is expected to be released Tue ...

December 07, 2022
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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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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 148: Jarrett Adams from Wrongful Conviction to Attorney

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|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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