Panel discussion and Q&A, followed by reception Light refreshments served MORE INFO + RSVP Imagine you are in prison for a crime you did not commit. In Pruno, Ramen, and a Side of Hope: Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction, exonerated former…
NCIP exoneree Franky Carrillo Jr. is now featured in the Summer 2015 issue of Loyola Marymount University Magazine. In the article, “First Person: Freed at Last,” Carrillo Jr. shares his journey from wrongful conviction at age 16, to exoneration 20…
A Washington D.C. Superior Court judge has officially exonerated Cleveland Wright, 56, who spent 28 years behind bars for a wrongful murder conviction before he was released from prison in 2007. Judge Laura A. Cordero declared Wright innocent of the 1978…
Michael Kenneth McAlister was pardoned by Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Richmond, Virginia, last week after spending nearly 30 years behind bars for a violent sex offense he never committed. The 58-year-old was originally charged in February 1986 for the abduction…
Exoneree Jarrett Adams, 34, who served 10 years in prison for a wrongful rape conviction, recently graduated from Loyola University Chicago Law School. At 17 years old, Adams was falsely accused of rape in Wisconsin. Despite maintaining his innocence since…
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…
NCIP Board Member Jennifer Thompson and exoneree Ronald Cotton were recognized by the Department of Justice at the Victims’ Rights Service Awards ceremony on Tuesday. Attorney General Eric Holder presided over the event, honoring Jennifer and Ronald for their extraordinary…
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…
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…
Nikki Pope, Cooley LLP attorney and NCIP advisory board member, and her co-author Courtney Lance, internal auditor and non-profit director, will accept the Media Award at NCIP’s Justice for All awards dinner on March 12, 2015. Their book, Pruno, Ramen,…