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Senior students majoring in criminal justice studies, history, political science, and sociology will present their capstone research from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 8, in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday granted a motion from The Innocence Project to file an amicus brief in support of Damien Echols, who is asking to use new DNA testing on items from a 1993 triple homicide known as the West Memphis Three case.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday granted a motion from The Innocence Project to file an amicus brief in support of Damien Echols, who is asking to use new DNA testing on items from a 1993 triple homicide known as the West Memphis Three case.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday granted a motion from The Innocence Project to file an amicus brief in support of Damien Echols, who is asking to use new DNA testing on items from a 1993 triple homicide known as the West Memphis Three case.

George Bell was wrongly convicted of a 1996 murder and spent nearly 24 years in prison before being exonerated in 2021.

“For decades, KCKPD and the DA’s office have been skewing the evidence to get the result they wanted,” the groups wrote to the DOJ.

“For decades, KCKPD and the DA’s office have been skewing the evidence to get the result they wanted,” the groups wrote to the DOJ.

David Sparks was 16 when he was picked up for violating a Philadelphia curfew for teens. He was later wrongfully convicted in a deadly shooting.

The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.

Tapp was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls in 1998. DNA evidence later proved his innocence.