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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.

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

On September 20 2022, Adnan Sayed had his murder conviction overturned by a Baltimore judge after spending nearly 23 years in jail. His case had featu

What does a person whos spent more than two decades in prison for a crime he didnt commit do on International Wrongful Conviction Day?

Dozens of customers are taking legal action against Hertz over wrongful arrests after their rental cars were reported to police as being stolen.

Black people are 7.5 times more likely to be wrongly convicted of murder than white people and eight times more likely to be wrongly convicted of rape, according to the report.

National Registry of Exonerations says Black Americans are seven times more likely than whites to be falsely convicted of serious crimes.

Black Americans are seven times more likely to be victims of police misconduct in high-ranking crimes, such as murder, sexual assault and drug crimes, says the National Registry of Exonerations.

Black people are 7.5 times more likely to be wrongly convicted of murder than white people and eight times more likely to be wrongly convicted of rape, according to the report.

Black people in the U.S. are seven times more likely to be falsely convicted of a serious crime like murder than white people, according to a new report published Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations.