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A man in Tennessee who sued law enforcement for arresting him over a social media post has received a $125,000 settlement.

The men were wrongly convicted as teenagers in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy. Their case was revisited after one of the men submitted a public records request.

A confrontation between the officer and Leonard Cure during a traffic stop rapidly turned violent and then deadly, footage released by the Camden County Sheriff’s Office shows.

Leonard Allan Cure, who was exonerated in 2020 after being convicted of armed robbery, was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia after being pulled over for speeding.

Farid El Haïry spent most of his adult life as a convicted rapist. Then his accuser changed her story.

His conviction received national attention after it was the subject of the “Serial” podcast’s first season in 2014. The victim’s brother is seeking a new hearing regarding Mr. Syed’s conviction.

When we see a Black kid and a white cop in the same setting, we expect the interaction to end in a tragedy whether it be a false arrest or fatal shooting. Thinking about a Pennsylvania mother asking the cops for help with her Black son might make you hold your breath but no, this story actually didn’t have a bad ending.

She spent the night in jail after being arrested in front of her children, she told McClatchy News.

The Horry County woman’s SC teaching certificate was reinstated, attorney says. She is claiming false arrest in the lawsuit filed Sept. 8.

Garr Keith Hardin and Jeffrey Clark spent decades of a life sentence in jail for a murder conviction. They were exonerated in 2018.