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J.B. Pritzker Race: Illinois Governor (Incumbent) Party: Democratic Experience: Founder and former managing partner of Pritzker Group (1996-2017), founder of 1871 and current governor of Illinois Education: Bachelor’s degree – Duke University, political science and government. Juris doctor – Northwestern University Major issues: “I’ve always stood up for a woman’s right to choose, and as...

The states highest court will decide whether to reinstate a Gary mans murder conviction after the Court of Appeals set aside the jury verdict for insufficient evidence.

The city of New York will settle lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.

The city of New York will settle lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.

A new wave of prosecutors, known as progressives, say that public safety can exist with policies like eliminating cash bail for people charged with low-level offenses.

Samuel R. Gross (University of Michigan Law School), Maurice Possley (University of California Irvine), Ken Otterbourg, Klara Stephens, Jessica Paredes, & Barbara OBrien (Michigan State University - College of Law) have posted Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States...

A Baltimore judge last month overturned Adnan Syed's murder conviction and ordered him released from prison, where the 41-year-old had spent more than two decades.

Anthony Kyles, 54, left the Carson City Correctional Facility after an order from Oakland County Circuit Judge Daniel O'Brien threw out the convictions earlier in the day.

Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of "Serial."

Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast "Serial," according to a lawyer affiliated with Syed's case.