Proposed wrongful-conviction bill would lower bar for new evidence
The legislation comes after a busy session last year that included a revision to the felony murder law, changes to the pardon law and added funding for conviction review units.
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The legislation comes after a busy session last year that included a revision to the felony murder law, changes to the pardon law and added funding for conviction review units.
A 35-year-old man who was sent to prison for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop was released Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his...
Marvin Haynes was convicted of killing a man in a Minneapolis flower shop in 2004, when he was just 16.
Marvin Haynes was convicted of killing a man in a Minneapolis flower shop in 2004, when he was just 16.
Nothing can make up for the time someone spent behind bars wrongfully, but for almost a decade, a Minnesota law has created a compensation process for cases where someone was wrongfully incarcerated.