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Virginia’s post-conviction testing project had excluded DNA from 78 convicted people, whose identities have for the most part been kept secret by the state, but reports on those individuals will be released July 1 under the Freedom of Information Act. A recently passed amendment in the state budget allows for the release of such reports, provided prosecutors do [...]
Continue Reading →Maurice Caldwell, a man who spent 20 years behind bars for a murder a judge said he did not commit, speaks out about problems with eyewitness identification. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →New testing of DNA evidence has cleared a man of a 1994 rape and murder, resulting in his release Monday. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →The Arkansas Supreme Court has granted a new hearing for death-row inmate Timothy Howard, convicted of a 1997 double murder, ruling that potential DNA testing problems be reviewed. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →The Fond du Lac Police Department has more than 50,000 pieces of evidence packed into three rooms and a caged area. Electronics, guns, swords, drugs and refrigerators with blood and DNA are among items mounting at the police station.
“Evidence rooms across the country are exponentially growing,” said Detective Lee Mikulec, the evidence custodian for [...]
Continue Reading →Juan Rivera, who was released from prison in January after being exonerated through DNA in the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old Waukegan girl, joined a panel discussion on false confessions in Lake County Sunday. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is creating a bureau to review potential wrongful convictions and address damage claims. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →Kerry Max Cook will get access to the DNA testing that he hopes will help bolster his claims of innocence in the 1977 murder of Linda Jo Edwards and force the court to exonerate him of the crime more than a decade after he was released from prison. But Cook will have to continue his [...]
Continue Reading →Juan Rivera, a recently released man who was exonerated in a 1992 Waukegan murder, is to talk about wrongful convictions in two panel discussions this month. Read the full article here.
Continue Reading →In 1987, Morton was convicted of beating his wife to death. Now 25 years later, DNA evidence has freed him. Lara Logan reports on what is next for Morton. Watch the video here.
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