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Man, 59, exonerated after spending 22 years incarcerated for 2002 gunpoint robbery: DA

Keith Graves, 59 is now free after spending 22 years in prison for a wrongfully convicted gunpoint robbery case, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Conviction Integrity Unit announced Wednesday.

Editorial: Does quadriplegic inmate deserve compassionate release after 49 years?

Ezra Bozeman was convicted of second-degree murder in 1975. The jury came to that decision 10 months after the crime occurred, when Morris Weitz was shot and killed during a robbery at a dry cleaner’s shop in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood. Bozeman was sentenced to life in prison. He has

State attorney general to appeal ruling granting new trial in child murder case

Convicted killer says new evidence will clear her of arson charges after state Superior Court agrees to hearing

BLOOMSBURG — Maria Sanutti-Spencer will be given the chance in Superior Court to argue her claims that newly discovered evidence would clear her of arson in a 2010 fire at

DA appeals order for new trials in 1997 Chester murder

Three men were granted new trials last month based on DNA evidence, but the district attorney argues it is not exculpatory.

Nolf asking for new trial in 2010 murder of mother, infant

Waide Nolf, who is serving life in prison for drowning a Bradford woman and her infant in 2010, is asking for a new trial, alleging DNA evidence he did not

Judge grants Brentt Sherwood new trial in 2005 murder case

SUNBURY — Brentt M. Sherwood, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2007 for the beating death of his 4-year-old stepdaughter, should receive a new trial, a senior judge

UPDATE Convicted killer in 2004 child death gets new trial

SUNBURY — Brentt M. Sherwood, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2007 for the beating death of his 4-year-old stepdaughter, should receive a new trial, a senior judge

Case of man exonerated after 27 years in prison for murder and who later passed away, is taken up by his estate

Three men given new trial for 1997 murder

Derrick Chappell, Morton Johnson and Samuel Grasty had their convictions vacated Thursday in the 1997 Chester murder of Henrietta Nickens.