After serving 18 years in prison for a crime they did not commit, Derrick Wheatt, Laurese Glover and Eugene Johnson had their convictions overturned by Cuyahoga County Judge Nancy Margaret Russo on March 26 with ten years of legal advocacy…
Kirk Bloodsworth, the first death row inmate to be exonerated based on DNA testing, will be honored at NCIP’s eighth annual Justice for All awards dinner on March 12, 2015. In 1984, Bloodsworth was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death…
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…
Former Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins will be honored at NCIP’s eighth annual Justice for All awards dinner on March 12, 2015 for his commitment to the integrity of the criminal justice system. In 2007, Watkins founded the internationally…
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…
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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…
NCIP’s 8th Annual Justice for All Awards Dinner is on March 12! Join our email mailing list so you can receive your invite! This dinner is NCIP’s primary means of raising funds to continue its programs, and showcases the inspiring…
Ricky Jackson, 57, was exonerated in November after serving 39 years behind bars for a 1975 murder that he did not commit—serving the longest prison sentence of any wrongfully convicted exoneree in U.S. history. In 1975, a money order salesman…
Matthew and Grace Huang, an American couple wrongfully convicted of charges related to their daughter’s death in Qatar, left the Gulf nation last Wednesday after their convictions were overturned by a Qatari appeals court. The decision ended a nearly two-year…