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Eric Smokes, 56, and David Warren, 53, were teenagers when they were arrested for the fatal mugging of 71-year-old Jean Casse on W. 52nd St, which unfolded moments after the ball had dropped on New Year's Eve.

Prosecutors are using a law that went into effect in 2021, allowing them to file a motion to vacate a conviction if they have information that a prisoner might be innocent or “erroneously convicted.”

The Ohio Innocence Project, housed at the University of Cincinnati, says wrongful convictions and imprisonment can happen for a number of reasons, but the basic reason being “because we are human.”

In 2002, Edgar Naranjo was a 26-year-old drug addict desperate for money. He hatched a plan to rob a flea market vendor he figured had a large supply of cologne he could unload for cash. His haphazard scheme went badly awry. After Naranjo and a teenage accomplice broke into their target’s Northwest Side home, the vendor’s son, a Chicago police officer, shot and killed the younger intruder and ...

In 2002, Edgar Naranjo was a 26-year-old drug addict desperate for money. He hatched a plan to rob a flea market vendor he figured had a large supply of cologne he could unload for cash. His haphazard scheme went badly awry. After Naranjo and a teenage accomplice broke into their target’s Northwest Side home, the vendor’s son, a Chicago police officer, shot and killed the younger intruder and ...

A Brooklyn man who served 14 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit – in a case investigated by disgraced ex-NYPD Det. Louis Scarcella – had his conviction overturned Thursday, prosecutors said.

Sir Keir Starmer admitted he made “mistakes” when he led the Crown Prosecution Service but insisted he had “no skeletons in the closet” as he faces questions over his role in the Post Office scandal.

Ronnie Long was accused of raping a white woman, and then he was convicted by an all-white jury in 1976.

Its faulty software led to the wrongful imprisonment of innocent people. It charged the Government vast amounts of money along the way. But, hey, never mind about any of that. It turns out that Fujitsu, the IT contractor at the heart of the Post Office scandal, still has an impeccable “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) score.