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Wisconsin Man Exonerated Through DNA Evidence

Northern California Innocence Project

Joseph Frey was exonerated with the help of attorneys at the Wisconsin Innocence Project after spending nearly 20 years in prison for a wrongful conviction. In 1994, Frey was convicted of sexually assaulting a female college student at knifepoint and

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DOJ Waives Procedural Bars in FBI Review of Hair Analysis Convictions

Northern California Innocence Project

The Department of Justice recently agreed to waive procedural bars to re-open and review more than 2,000 criminal cases between 1985 and 2000 in which the FBI conducted microscopic hair analysis of crime scene evidence. This comes after three men were exonerated

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