When police roll up on a crime scene, the first people they seek out are eyewitnesses to explain what, and who, they saw. But ...
Nearly 50 innocent people have been wrongfully incarcerated in Indiana. A bill aims to combat one of the main reasons why.
Marvin Haynes filed a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday after spending nearly two decades behind ...
Haynes was 16 when convicted of killing Minneapolis flower shop owner Harry Sherer. He spent 19 years in prison before being exonerated and released in 2023.
A federal appeals court this week reinstated the murder conviction against Thomas Clardy, who was released from prison in 2023. A Nashville jury in 2007 convicted Clardy of murder and sentenced him to ...
Clardy’s lawyer failed to present an eyewitness identification expert at trial despite the fact “eyewitness identification was effectively the only evidence the government had against Clardy ...
A three-day human trafficking operation carried out by The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Bureau led to ...
The Innocence Project used to track all DNA exonerations throughout the country. An exoneration clears a convicted person of ...
At the start of 2025, 15 states, including Virginia, have some legislation around facial recognition in policing.
On Monday, Jan. 27, a Travis County Judge in the 403rd Judicial Court signed an order recommending the Texas Court of ...
Judge Maureen Sweeney determined that Chaz Bunch did not have ineffective counsel when Bunch's attorney decided not to call an eyewitness identification expert at the trial. According to the ...