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Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit Secures 20th Exoneration Since 2018

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|Date: May 06, 2021
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Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit Secures 20th Exoneration Since 2018

By Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA– The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas vacated the 2010 murder conviction ...

By Vanguard Staff PHILADELPHIA– The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas vacated the 2010 murder conviction and sentence of Obina Onyiah after the District Attorney’s Office Conviction Integrity Unit (C ...

May 06, 2021
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U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit Rules Against Murder Defendant Because of Late Filing

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|Date: April 27, 2021
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U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit Rules Against Murder Defendant Because of Late Filing

By Lovepreet Dhinsa NEW ORLEANS, LA - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against defen ...

By Lovepreet Dhinsa NEW ORLEANS, LA - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against defendant Rodney Reed for a crime he claims he did commit – the court is fully aware of evidence bei ...

April 27, 2021
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VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: More than 20 Years after Conviction, Man’s Legal Nightmare about to End

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|Date: April 18, 2021
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VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: More than 20 Years after Conviction, Man’s Legal Nightmare about to End

By Jose Medina and Samara Yarnes NEW YORK, NY - After years of waiting for someone to pick up his case t ...

By Jose Medina and Samara Yarnes NEW YORK, NY - After years of waiting for someone to pick up his case to prove his innocence and exonerate him, Andre Brown’s prayers have finally been answered by th ...

April 18, 2021
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VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: Injustice Through Manipulation – Lengthy Incarceration from Technical Violation May Have Violated Infamous Jeff Perrotte’s Rights of Procedural Justice

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|Date: April 08, 2021
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VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: Injustice Through Manipulation – Lengthy Incarceration from Technical Violation May Have Violated Infamous Jeff Perrotte’s Rights of Procedural Justice

By Tanya Decendario, Roxanna Jarvis and Derrick Pal CALIFORNIA - Jeff Perrotte – a man involved i ...

By Tanya Decendario, Roxanna Jarvis and Derrick Pal CALIFORNIA - Jeff Perrotte – a man involved in a 1992 high profile murder case for killing Frank Sinatra’s close friend Jilly Rizzo – was co ...

April 08, 2021
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A Chance of Freedom for Wrongfully Convicted Man Serving 100 Years for the Death of His 3-Year-Old Daughter

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|Date: March 18, 2021
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A Chance of Freedom for Wrongfully Convicted Man Serving 100 Years for the Death of His 3-Year-Old Daughter

By Lovepreet Dhinsa, Linhchi Nguyen, and Kathryn Wood BLOOMINGTON - After 23 years of serving in prison, ...

By Lovepreet Dhinsa, Linhchi Nguyen, and Kathryn Wood BLOOMINGTON - After 23 years of serving in prison, Barton Monroe McNeil will finally have the chance to be acquitted in an upcoming retrial afte ...

March 18, 2021
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Family and Supporters of Andre Brown Seek to Press Bronx DA to Allow for Virtual Hearing

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|Date: March 17, 2021
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Family and Supporters of Andre Brown Seek to Press Bronx DA to Allow for Virtual Hearing

By David Greenwald It has been a year since Bronx Supreme Court Judge David Lewis granted a motion for An ...

By David Greenwald It has been a year since Bronx Supreme Court Judge David Lewis granted a motion for Andre Brown, who supporters believe has been wrongly incarcerated for 22 years, to have an eviden ...

March 17, 2021
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Vanguard Follow-Up in Stankewitz Case: COVID and Hope for the Future

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|Date: March 15, 2021
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Vanguard Follow-Up in Stankewitz Case: COVID and Hope for the Future

By Roxanna Jarvis CALIFORNIA – Alexandra Cock, who is part of the legal team fighting for the release of ...

By Roxanna Jarvis CALIFORNIA – Alexandra Cock, who is part of the legal team fighting for the release of Douglas “Chief” Stankewitz—the longest serving individual on death row in California—told The V ...

March 15, 2021
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Looking Back: Doing Hard Time – Part Three

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|Date: March 07, 2021
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Looking Back: Doing Hard Time – Part Three

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 07, 2021
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Mississippi Man Who Served 23 Years for a Crime He Did Not Commit Awarded $500,000

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|Date: March 04, 2021
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Mississippi Man Who Served 23 Years for a Crime He Did Not Commit Awarded $500,000

By Michael Wheeler and Julia Asby MISSISSIPPI – After serving 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t co ...

By Michael Wheeler and Julia Asby MISSISSIPPI – After serving 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Mississippi, this week awarded Curtis Flowers $50 ...

March 04, 2021
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Missouri Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Johnson on Technical Grounds Despite Strong Evidence of Innocence

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|Date: March 02, 2021
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Missouri Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Johnson on Technical Grounds Despite Strong Evidence of Innocence

By David M. Greenwald The Missouri Supreme Court rejected an appeal of Lamar Johnson’s 1995 murder convic ...

By David M. Greenwald The Missouri Supreme Court rejected an appeal of Lamar Johnson’s 1995 murder conviction, despite the fact that St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner filed a motion for a new tri ...

March 02, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Episode 91: Flint Taylor on the Murder of Fred Hampton and Chicago Torture Cases

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|Date: February 15, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Episode 91: Flint Taylor on the Murder of Fred Hampton and Chicago Torture Cases

It started with the murder of Fred Hampton in 1969 but tracks the Chicago Police torture cases which star ...

It started with the murder of Fred Hampton in 1969 but tracks the Chicago Police torture cases which started with Andrew Wilson, a death row prisoner who was tortured by officers including the infamou ...

February 15, 2021
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Lawyers Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs Talk about What Client’s Freedom Could Mean to Future of Death Penalty

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|Date: February 01, 2021
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Lawyers Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs Talk about What Client’s Freedom Could Mean to Future of Death Penalty

By Roxanna Jarvis SAN FRANCISCO – In an interview conducted by The Davis Vanguard, lawyers Tony Serra and ...

By Roxanna Jarvis SAN FRANCISCO – In an interview conducted by The Davis Vanguard, lawyers Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs provided more details about Douglas Stankewitz—who had been the longest survivin ...

February 01, 2021
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Looking Back: Yes, I Witnessed Violence In Prison – Part 2

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|Date: January 24, 2021
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Looking Back: Yes, I Witnessed Violence In Prison – 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 24, 2021
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Duke Law Wrongful Conviction Unit Exonerates 10th Client Overall and 4th in Last Two Years

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|Date: January 20, 2021
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Duke Law Wrongful Conviction Unit Exonerates 10th Client Overall and 4th in Last Two Years

By William McCurry DURHAM, NC – The Duke Law Wrongful Conviction Unit exonerated Willie George Shaw, its ...

By William McCurry DURHAM, NC – The Duke Law Wrongful Conviction Unit exonerated Willie George Shaw, its tenth client, and fourth client to be exonerated in the past two years, along with Charles Ray ...

January 20, 2021
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Yes, I Witnessed Violence in Prison – Part 1

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|Date: January 17, 2021
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Yes, I Witnessed Violence in Prison – Part 1

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 17, 2021
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Another Exoneration – 17th – of Wrongfully Convicted Person in Philly

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|Date: January 02, 2021
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Another Exoneration – 17th – of Wrongfully Convicted Person in Philly

By Jose Medina PHILADELPHIA – Many people are wrongfully convicted of crimes in the U.S., but very few ar ...

By Jose Medina PHILADELPHIA – Many people are wrongfully convicted of crimes in the U.S., but very few are exonerated—Robert Outlaw was one of those few, thanks to the diligent work of Philadelphia Di ...

January 02, 2021
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Suffolk County District Attorney Argues Man Wrongfully Convicted in 1991 Homicide

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|Date: December 29, 2020
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Suffolk County District Attorney Argues Man Wrongfully Convicted in 1991 Homicide

By Kianna Anvari SUFFOLK COUNTY, MA– After the Suffolk County District Attorney motioned for a new trial ...

By Kianna Anvari SUFFOLK COUNTY, MA– After the Suffolk County District Attorney motioned for a new trial for a man convicted in a 1991 homicide, he was freed based on wrongful-conviction. District Att ...

December 29, 2020
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‘We Need a Whole New System,’ Charges Termaine Hicks After 19 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated

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|Date: December 27, 2020
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‘We Need a Whole New System,’ Charges Termaine Hicks After 19 Years Wrongfully Incarcerated

By Carlin Ross PHILADELPHIA - The Innocence Project, a team that exonerates those wrongly convicted throu ...

By Carlin Ross PHILADELPHIA - The Innocence Project, a team that exonerates those wrongly convicted through DNA testing and works to reform the criminal justice system, provided more details Dec. 16 o ...

December 27, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Letter from an Innocent Man Wrongly Incarcerated

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|Date: December 21, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Letter from an Innocent Man Wrongly Incarcerated

By Tevarez Lopez Greetings and blessings. First and foremost I hope that this supplication for help, succ ...

By Tevarez Lopez Greetings and blessings. First and foremost I hope that this supplication for help, succor, grace and mercy has found you in the best of spirits. My name is Tevarez Richard Lopez but ...

December 21, 2020
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Tearful Prosecutor Admits Failures in Day 4 of Kansas Misconduct Hearing

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|Date: December 11, 2020
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Tearful Prosecutor Admits Failures in Day 4 of Kansas Misconduct Hearing

By Layla Mustafa TOPEKA, KA – In Thursday’s portion of weeklong proceedings here by the Kansas Board for ...

By Layla Mustafa TOPEKA, KA – In Thursday’s portion of weeklong proceedings here by the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys involving former Shawnee County Deputy DA Jacqie Spradling, the now-Bou ...

December 11, 2020
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