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Roland Strickland and Warren Thornton, the younger brothers of Kevin Strickland, said his release from prison Tuesday after 43 years was long overdue and ends a drawn-out nightmare.

Roland Strickland and Warren Thornton, the younger brothers of Kevin Strickland, said his release from prison Tuesday after 43 years was long overdue and ends a drawn-out nightmare.

Michigan has seen a lot of convicted felons go free recently and a closer look at how those convictions happened in the first place reveals considerable concern about the court system.

The family of a man who died shortly after being released from prison for a killing he did not commit will receive a settlement of more than $800,000.

An Idaho man who recently admitted to a 1996 murder that sent a wrongfully convicted man to prison for two decades, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Brian Leigh Dripps Sr., 55, was sentenced to life in prison by a district judge on Tuesday in the decades-old killing of Angie Dodge, according to the Idaho Statesman. In June 1996, 18-year-old Dodge was raped and killed in her Idaho Falls home. The teen’s throat had been cut, nearly decapitating her. Christopher Tapp was wrongful...

Man Jailed 42 Years For Triple-Murder Is Innocent; Prosecutor Wants Him Released KEY POINTS The Jackson County office that prosecuted a now-61-year-old Missouri man in 1979 is calling for his release A review of Kevin Stricklands case found he was wrongfully convicted on the account of an unreliable lone witness The witness recanted her claims after Stricklands trial and tried to free him until her death State prosecutors called for the release of a Kansas City, Missouri man who has served ove...

Kansas bill regulating jailhouse witness testimony unlikely to become law this year Bill regulating jailhouse witnesses in KS unlikely to pass and last updated 2021-04-16 23:53:54-04 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Olin “Pete” Coones went to prison for a murder he did not commit in Kansas City, Kansas, a jailhouse informant was the damning witness. No physical evidence tied Coones, whose story was featured Friday on " Dateline," to the crime. The father of five even had an alibi, but W...

The Idaho House on Tuesday approved several bills, including legislation aimed at people who served prison time after erroneous convictions and a bill that

Just in time for the holidays last year, Eliseo DeLeon's 1996 murder conviction was overturned.