The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office under Jackie Lacey is launching a conviction integrity unit comprised of three prosecutors, a senior investigator, and a paralegal to address claims of wrongful conviction. The new unit follows a rise in wrongful-conviction…
The city of Los Angeles has paid an $8.3 million settlement to Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) exoneree Obie Anthony, who served 17 years in prison for wrongful murder and attempted robbery convictions before he was exonerated and released in…
Elliot Peters, partner at Keker & Van Nest LLP, will be honored at NCIP’s eighth annual Justice for All awards dinner on March 12, 2015 for his tenacious commitment to freeing the wrongfully convicted. Peters and his team at Keker…
The state of Connecticut has awarded exoneree Kenneth Ireland $6 million in compensation for a wrongful rape and murder conviction that sent him to prison for 21 years. In 1989, Ireland was convicted for the 1986 rape and murder of Barbara…
California State Senator Mark Leno will be honored at NCIP’s eighth annual Justice for All awards dinner on March 12, 2015 for his steadfast dedication to criminal justice reform. His leadership has led to numerous pieces of legislation that address…
Governor Brown recently approved compensation to Northern California Innocence Project clients Franky Carrillo Jr. and Johnny Williams for their decades of wrongful imprisonment. This came after approval by the Legislature and the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board’s recommendation…
Justice for the wrongfully incarcerated just got one step closer to reality for two NCIP exonerees, with the help of a new law passed last year to improve the process for compensating innocent people who wrongly spent years behind bars.…
30 years after wrongfully convicting Timothy Cole or rape, the city of Lubbock, Texas has installed a statue of Cole in an effort to honor Cole and recognize and remember the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Cole…
On Monday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed two very important bills to help protect innocent people from wrongful conviction and make sure that those who have been wrongly convicted receive access to compensation. SB 618 authored by CA State Senator…
NCIP exoneree Maurice Caldwell and NCIP attorney Paige Kaneb recently spoke with ABC7 News about the struggle exonerees face after prison. In 1990, an eyewitness falsely identified Caldwell as a killer during a bad drug deal, and he wrongfully spent…