Over 23 years ago Missouri’s criminal justice system failed a man charged with murder. This week he’s looking at his last best chance at freedom.
Annual exoneration report shows growth in amount of time served and increasing levels of official misconduct.
In a new law review article, I try to provide a realistic estimate of the rate. I come up with tentative range of somewhere between 0.016% and 0.062% -- well below the figure of 1% to 4% that is often cited as the conventional wisdom.
District attorneys rarely ever get punished for misbehavior that puts innocent people behind bars. Is that about to change?
Experts warn against forms of forensic evidence that haven't been validated, but the deputy attorney general thinks that's an "erroneously narrow view."
Government misconduct a big driver of exonerations last year.
Fifteen men allegedly framed by a corrupt sergeant have convictions overturned.
The Detroit Crime Lab, shut down in 2008 for negligence, switched test bullets with autopsy bullets in order to convict Desmond Ricks.
Everything from official misconduct to bad eyewitness identifications to false confessions played roles.
Not even DNA evidence can get him to change his mind.
A judge makes unfounded accusations against a dead man whose life was stolen to save the state from "automatic financial liability."
"An over-technical interpretation of the law" leaves the late Glenn Ford's family with no remuneration for the life he spent behind bars.
Louisiana denied modest financial compensation to Glenn Ford because he couldn't prove his "factual innocence."
Another record year for proving some people behind bars are innocent.
Three years in prison without a trial, often in solitary, contributed to young man's suicide.
This latest failure of criminal science again highlights the need for massive reforms at law enforcement agencies.
"I was arrogant, judgmental, narcissistic and very full of myself."
Last year 125 people were freed from prison due to innocence, including six on death row.
A scholar tries-and fails-to rehabilitate the sex-abuse hysteria of the '80s.
The egregious Joe Freeman Britt.
A professor tries to rehabilitate ritual-abuse prosecutions of the 1980s and '90s.
Prosecutors increasingly willing to reevaluate cases
87 were released from prison in 2013 after proving they didn't do it
Texas case went back to 1992
Says he was tormented into confessing to a rape he didn't commit
A remarkable amount of foot-dragging by state's justice system
Spent years in jail over sexual assault charges based on faulty science
Have been in jail from sexual assault case dating back to 1994
Freed after judge overruled conviction
Thanks to court delays
Police beat a false confession from Eric Caine
Seems appropriate, since their laws put those people behind bars
Governments are slow to fix their mistakes
Claim sheriff's department refused to perform test
National registry records 69 just last year
A bit of compensation for what he lost