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The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted it may have been involved in 99 Post Office prosecutions involving the defective Horizon IT system, according to a leaked letter seen by The Telegraph.

An Idaho man who died in November, four years after being exonerated for murder, may have been killed, police say.

"We are deeply remorseful for the past wrongs that caused tremendous harm to Mr. Long, his family, friends, and our community," the city's statement read.

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government plans to introduce new legislation to overturn the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office managers in one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the country's history, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday. Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of self-employed sub-postmasters at branches of the state-owned Post Office - many of them at the heart of small communities and often run by family teams - were convicted of theft, fraud and fal...

Ronny Long was wrongly-convicted for raping a white woman and now he has reached a settlement for his time served.

Under questioning on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, the minister for the Post Office, Kevin Hollinrake, objected to what he called “trial by media” in the Horizon IT scandal. A few hours later, Rishi Sunak told MPs that the Government would introduce emergency legislation to overturn the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters and to speed up the compensation due to them.

The Justice Secretary will examine changing the rules around private prosecutions by companies in the wake of the Post Office scandal, a Cabinet minister has said.

A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated.

Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year.

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