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Dr. Vinh Chung, co-founder and co-owner of Vanguard Skin Specialists, believes doctors and lions have something in common — both would rather have freedom than security.

Fred Martinez was visiting from San Antonio when he says he found himself accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy.

Recipients of the $5 trillion in federal funding for programs designed to respond to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could soon face fresh scrutiny for non-compliance.

The legal hurdles are staggering. Even with new DNA results or other forms of compelling, exonerating evidence, Texas’ wrongfully convicted are at the mercy of district attorney offices and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals when filing claims of actual innocence. Denials are common, and only a handful of prisoners

Parents and kids in Markham, Ont., are hoping for a solution that could reopen the city's ponds to skating and shinny after bylaw officers started cracking down last week.

For the past few months, I have received near daily letters from Ronnie Turner, a Black man in his late 50s who claims that he was wrongfully convicted of aggravated robbery of a Fort Worth convenience store 18 years ago. The dozens of letters and large envelopes that greeted me every day as I returned from work were

Rather than anomalies, wrongful convictions are often the result of official misconduct, according to recent reporting by the Washington Post. More than 50% of documented cases of wrongful convictions between 1989 and 2019 resulted from police misconduct (34%), prosecutor misconduct (30%), or a combination of both. 

The controversial practice of using forensic hypnosis in Texas courtroom was almost banned when it passed unanimously the legislature. But then Gov. Abbott vetoed it.

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man who had been convicted in a 2010 fatal stabbing but was later eliminated as the killer by DNA evidence was declared innocent on Wednesday by Texas’ highest criminal court. The ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals came after a new analysis of DNA found on the victim’s […]

Appeals Court Finally Exonerates Lydell Grant—Two Years After DNA Evidence Cleared Him And 18 months after the police, district attorney, and trial judge all declared the Houston man innocent. Better late than never. Today, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals—the highest criminal tribunal in the state—finally came around to a conclusion that the rest of the justice system (cops, prosecutors, other judges) reached back in 2019: Lydell Grant is innocent. As we wrote in the January issue of...