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Where there is a political agenda to convict someone, anyone, of the crime.
Where not a single witness actually saw the crime occur, much...
Patrick Pursley acquitted in Rockford murder retrial
rrstar.com
ROCKFORD — Patrick Pursley, who spent 23 years in prison for the murder of Andy Ascher, was acquitted of the charges on Wednesday after...
‘They framed her’: 10 years after Melissa Calusinski was accused of Lincolnshire day care...
Chicago Tribune
When Melissa Calusinski found Benjamin Kingan unresponsive in his bouncy chair at a suburban day care center on Jan. 14, 2009, his death...
Rockford man John Horton receives certificate of innocence
WIFR
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) -- John Horton, a Rockford man who spent more than 20 years in prison before he was exonerated, received his certificate of innocence.
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Changed opinions, new sentence: Ex-death row inmate in Mississippi gets life in baby death
clarionledger.com
JACKSON, Miss. — A judge ruled Monday that a Mississippi man should spend the rest of his life in prison after the state Supreme...
Charles Erickson seeks release from prison in Heitholt homicide
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Five years after Ryan Ferguson walked out of prison after winning a lengthy court battle for his freedom, Charles Erickson is...
Rodney Lincoln’s sentence commuted after three decades in prison
FOX2now
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - On his last day as governor, Eric Greitens commuted sentences and issued pardons in what he said is the ability...
The 2018 Injustice Anywhere Spring Newsletter Is Now Online
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, courts in the United States overturned 139 wrongful convictions in 2017. Sixty percent of the exonerations in...
17 YEARS AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF A GRISLY MURDER IN VEGAS, KIRSTIN LOBATO SEES...
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/29/las-vegas-murder-kirstin-lobato-wrongful-conviction/
ON DECEMBER 29, more than a decade after she was first sent to prison in Nevada for a murder she did not commit, Kirstin Blaise...
Jamie Snow 7th Annual Postcards In The Park Event To Take Place This Sunday
The time has come once again for the annual Jamie Snow Postcards in the Park event. The event, which is now in its seventh...