Across the United States, estimates suggest that thousands of innocent people are currently incarcerated. Research indicates ...
John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell both spent more than 16 years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2019.
Both were convicted and sentenced to 31 years in prison. In 2019 a Cook County judge vacated both convictions, and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office declined to prosecute the men again.
Nearly 20 years after being convicted on charges of bribery and corruption, former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy claims he ...
Carmon’s is one of eight wrongful-conviction awards totaling $37.6 million reviewed Friday, an unprecedented day in Connecticut’s 18-year-long struggle to atone for sending wrongfully ...
Changes to Oregon’s law would require the state Department of Justice to consider new evidence pointing to people’s innocence. The concept of a 2022 bill to address wrongful convictions in ...
John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell were teenagers when they were coerced into giving false confessions in a 2003 murder in ...
Fulton and Anthony Mitchell, who was not there, were awarded $60 million each, which the law firm representing them says is the biggest wrongful conviction jury verdict in U.S. history.