In 1988, Timothy Atkins was convicted of robbery and murder and sentenced to 32 years in prison by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Atkins spent 23 years behind bars before he was found innocent by the same judge who…
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In 1988, Timothy Atkins was convicted of robbery and murder and sentenced to 32 years in prison by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Atkins spent 23 years behind bars before he was found innocent by the same judge who…
Jeffrey Deskovic, who spent 16 years in prison before being exonerated in 2006, wrote an article for the Examiner.com critiquing the New York-based Innocence Project’s recent report “Making Up for Lost Time: What the Wrongfully Convicted Endure and How to…
Life has been hard for Robert Dewey since he was released from prison in April. The Colorado exoneree spent 16 years wrongfully imprisoned and left empty-handed. Not only was Dewey denied access to all the post-release aid that parolees are…
LaMonte Armstrong is trying to put his life back together. However, freedom has not come easily. Armstrong was released at the end of June after a judge threw out his murder conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct. He was originally implicated…
Marcus Lyons was wrongly convicted of rape in 1987. He was later exonerated through DNA evidence in 2007, received a full pardon in 2008 and last month he received a $5 million settlement from the town of Woodbridge for his…
Compensation for wrongful conviction is already hard to obtain in many states but a bill recently passed by the North Carolina state legislature places even more obstacles in front of exonerees who have already endured so much harm. The new…
Washington set to review new wrongful conviction compensation law: A new bill in the Washington state legislature would give exonerated defendants $50,000 per year of wrongful incarceration, with additional compensation for death row and sex crime exonerees. By comparison, California…