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More prosecutors appear to be willing to reconsider convictions in the face of contrary evidence, but not all are.

Environmental DNA research has aided conservation, but scientists say its ability to glean information about human populations and individuals poses dangers.

A three-judge panel found that a lower court made crucial missteps in the trial of Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson, the first parents to take their chances in front of a jury.

Leo Schofield will be transferred to a prison with a transitional program. He has maintained innocence in his wife’s murder in 1987, and another man has since confessed to the killing.

Yusef Salaam runs for office, while the man who reviled him faces charges.

A con game that undercover police use to obtain confessions in Canada secures convictions, but opponents say it’s a breeding ground for false confessions.

Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five, is running in a competitive City Council race in Harlem. He described the former president’s indictment as “karma.”

Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.

The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a lower court had violated the right of the victim’s brother to have been notified of and to attend a hearing.

Anthony J. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in the assault in Syracuse, N.Y., which Ms. Sebold, a well-known novelist, described in her memoir “Lucky.”