CHICAGO, IL - Jerry Herrington was fully exonerated from a wrongful murder conviction by Cook County Judge Alfredo Maldonado ...

Police working under pressure from supervisors, the media and elected officials to quickly solve a case may cut corners and ...

Across the United States, estimates suggest that thousands of innocent people are currently incarcerated. Research indicates ...

As the director of the Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic, I’ve represented clients like Benson, who had their liberty stolen from them due to a wrongful conviction. Mistaken eyewitness ...

a third of which officials estimate is due to mistaken eyewitness identification, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, the most comprehensive list of wrongful convictions in the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A judge Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who spent 20 years behind bars for a deadly 1990 shooting ...