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A day after filing a federal lawsuit against the city of Chicago and former detectives, Marilyn Mulero, the first and only woman in Illinois exonerated after being sent to death row, called on the city to stop defending and paying the pensions of former police officers whose alleged misconduct has led to scores of wrongful convictions. As first reported by the Tribune, Mulero filed the ...

“I was framed for a child’s murder of which I was innocent,” said Adam Carmon, who is suing the City of New Haven in Connecticut.

Carolyn Hoyle’s profile on The Conversation

In 2020, she was detained on a murder-related charge. She was released, but her life will never be the same. Inside the world of wrongful arrests.

The vast majority of people polled last month supported legislation that would make it easier to overturn wrongful convictions.

The price of freedom is pathetically low in Florida, and the cost of injustice is much too high. The going rate is $50,000 for every year people languish in prison before being exonerated for crimes they did not commit. That’s less than $6 an hour, much less than the minimum wage. The necessity for this reality is a deeply flawed system where wrongful convictions are commonplace. There have ...

Albany's “Wrongful Conviction Act” eviscerate any hope of having finality in our criminal-justice system and will result in infinite appeals in the same cases and more criminals released onto our streets.

Arkansas Supreme Court to Rule on Appeal of Circuit Court Decision Denying Echols Right To DNA Testing

The Democratic supermajority is on track to end the 2023 session this week without votes on some controversial bills.

Deemed "detrimental" by several district attorneys across the state, the proposed bill would make it much easier for people to challenge criminal convictions even when they pleaded guilty.