Wrongful Incarceration News Today

Exoneree Lamar Johnson has filed a wrongful incarceration lawsuit against the City of St. Louis and individual members of the police department who worked or supervised his case.

A man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years has reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina involving a lawsuit accusing authorities of misconduct, the man's lawyers said Tuesday.

An Oklahoma judge on Tuesday declared innocent a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he did not commit – believed to be the longest amount of time served by anyone wrongfully convicted in the United States.

A Cook County judge overturned a murder conviction Tuesday after it was revealed that the witness was legally blind, The Chicago Sun Times reported.

An innocent man who spent nearly 30 years in prison due to former Norfolk detective Robert Glenn Ford said he supports the new review of Ford’s old cases by the University of Virginia School of Law.

Percy Brown spent more than seven years in jail awaiting trial for murder, rape, sodomy and kidnapping before the charges were dropped.

The governor vetoed a sensible law to pay the exonerated back after the state stole years of their lives. | Opinion

As passed, counties will remain liable for 75% of compensation claims made by people who have been exonerated.

ATLANTA — Four men recently exonerated for crimes they didn’t commit will have to extend their hope for pay from the state until next year.

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