With 45 seconds remaining in December’s Miami Beach Bowl, BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall burned two consecutive timeouts in an attempt to ice the Memphis kicker on a point after kick to tie the game. The double-icing failed and Memphis went…
Ricky Jackson, 57, was exonerated in November after serving 39 years behind bars for a 1975 murder that he did not commit—serving the longest prison sentence of any wrongfully convicted exoneree in U.S. history. In 1975, a money order salesman…
This past weekend I was invited to speak at the Water Polo Coaches Association National Conference at UCSD, held in conjunction with the NCAA Championships. As I did at last year’s conference, I spoke on two issues near to my…
Matthew and Grace Huang, an American couple wrongfully convicted of charges related to their daughter’s death in Qatar, left the Gulf nation last Wednesday after their convictions were overturned by a Qatari appeals court. The decision ended a nearly two-year…
Michael Hanline, California’s longest-serving wrongfully convicted inmate, was released from Ventura County Superior Court on November 24th after serving 36 years behind bars for a wrongful murder conviction. In 1978, Ventura resident J.T. McGarry, a friend and associate of Hanline,…
New York City, its Housing Authority, and the state of New York have agreed to pay $9 million to Danny Colon and Anthony Ortiz, who spent 16 years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 2009. Colon and Ortiz…
Detroit resident Donya Davis, who served nearly seven years behind bars for a wrongful rape conviction, was recently exonerated after post-conviction DNA testing revealed his innocence. Although DNA tests were performed on a rape kit obtained from the victim and…
Dennis Lee Allen and Stanley Orson Mozee were released last Tuesday after Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins recommended that their murder convictions be overturned. In 2000, Allen and Mozee were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the…
NCIP friend Jennifer Thompson knows firsthand that wrongful conviction has far reaching consequences, not only for the innocent man or woman who loses years in prison but also for the original victims, families, law enforcement and potentially other victims of…
Los Angeles county resident Susan Mellen, 59, was recently exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction. Based solely on the false testimony of a woman with an extensive history of giving false information to law…