Wrongful Conviction

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Richard Jones thegrio.com
December 22, 2018
Richard Anthony Jones will receive a $1.1 million settlement in a lawsuit that was resolved under Kansas state’s new mistaken-conviction…
Valentino Dixon
September 20, 2018
Valentino Dixon went to jail for a crime he didn't commit, but he got out through an unconventional means
judge thegrio.com
July 5, 2018
Jerome Johnson is a free man 30 years after the fact thanks to help from the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project’s re-investigation
David Robinson has been exonerated but still sits in Missouri prison thegrio.com
May 15, 2018
David Robinson always maintained that he was innocent of the 2001 of killing Sheila Box who was shot to death
November 14, 2017
Judge Genece Brinkley is being investigated for a possible 'extortionate demand'
October 17, 2017
Lamonte McIntyre was exonerated after spending time in prison for a crime he didn't commit, but the state isn't going…
May 18, 2016
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man who spent 19 years in prison for the killing of a friend…
April 4, 2015
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man freed after nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row said the people who played
April 2, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — An inmate on Alabama's death row for nearly 30 years will go free after prosecutors said…
March 22, 2015
theGrio REPORT - Attorney A.M. "Marty" Stroud III, of Shreveport, was the lead prosecutor in the December 1984 first-degree murder…
March 20, 2015
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man who was sentenced to death for a killing he didn’t commit and spent nearly four
January 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will pay $17 million to settle three wrongful criminal convictions. City Comptroller Scott…
November 11, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent 34 years behind bars for a decades-old killing was freed from jail…
October 30, 2012
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer…
May 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The University of Michigan Law School in a joint project with Northwestern University Law School has released…
August 11, 2011
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A judge on Monday ordered one of them back to prison but allowed the other to…
December 7, 2010
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Wisconsin Innocence Project helped free him last year, and now the 46-year-old Milwaukee man wants to…
October 22, 2009
A federal jury has awarded $14 million to a man who spent nearly 15 years in prison after he was…
June 23, 2009
A federal jury has awarded more than $21 million to a Chicago man who spent nearly 12 years in prison…