Derrick Hamilton, 49, was exonerated on Friday after serving nearly two decades for a murder in Brooklyn that he did not commit. Although Hamilton maintained that he was in Connecticut at the time of the shooting murder of Nathaniel Cash…
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,…
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…
California Assembly Bill 885, which authorizes courts to inform a jury when a prosecutor has intentionally concealed evidence of innocence, recently passed off the Assembly floor and is headed to Governor Brown’s desk to be signed. AB 885, authored by…
NCIP is proud to announce that SB 980, a bill that improves the process for obtaining post conviction DNA testing, passed the California State Senate today. The bill, authored by Senator Ted Lieu and sponsored by NCIP and other organizations,…
Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson was briefly jailed April 19, then released on bail after a district judge determined there was probable cause that Anderson violated state law by lying to a trial judge to win the conviction…
Judge and former prosecutor Ken Anderson took the stand in his own defense Friday capping a week-long hearing into whether Anderson should face criminal charges for failing to disclose evidence that exonerated Michael Morton of his wife’s murder. Morton spent…
Ken Anderson, a former Williamson County, Texas District Attorney and current judge faces disciplinary action by the State Bar of Texas after charges were filed on October 24. Anderson is charged with withholding evidence in the trial of Michael Morton…
The California Supreme Court reversed Miguel Bacigalupo’s death sentence Monday finding that the prosecution failed to turn over evidence that would probably have led to a sentence of life-without-parole. Bacigalupo was convicted of the 1983 murders of two brothers in…
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…
