The Marshall Project, a newly formed nonprofit criminal justice journalism group, wrote a story published in the Washington Post today revealing new evidence of misconduct by a Texas prosecutor that may have led to the wrongful execution of Cameron Todd…
Michael Wayne Hash walked out of the Culpeper County courthouse a free man with his murder conviction and life sentence dismissed. The judge ruled that Hash’s actual innocence claim had merit and his conviction was infected with police and prosecutorial…
The Ohio Innocence Project has won a new trial for Dewey Amos Jones III. Jones, 50, was convicted of murder and robbery in 1993 but always maintained his innocence. A jailhouse snitch implicated Jones and another man, Gary Rusu, of…
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…
A story by a news station in Louisville, Kentucky illustrates the problems with utilizing jailhouse informants and possible reform efforts. Watch the story here. www.ncip.scu.edu