Daniel Larsen’s weapons conviction was overturned by a federal judge two years ago and yet he still remains in prison. This month Larsen’s supporters delivered over 100,000 petition signatures to California Attorney General Kamala Harris asking her to release Larsen.…
Kristine Bunch will get a new trial in the death of her three-year-old son after the Indiana Supreme Court refused to overturn a lower court decision. Bunch was convicted in 1996 after prosecutors argued that she used kerosene to start…
At the request of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, Jeff Blackburn, chief counsel for the Innocence Project of Texas is examining over one thousand arson cases to weed out any that might be based on the same bad forensic science…
Five people, Devon Ayers, Michael Cosme, Eric Glisson, Carlos Perez and Cathy Watkins, were all convicted of the murder of a cab driver in the Bronx in 1995. An article in New York magazine even focused on the investigation with…
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…
Authors at the University of Florida have researched the negative reactions and stigma associated with exonerated persons compared to parolees and average individuals. The abstract of the article “After Exoneration: An Investigation of Stigma and Wrongfully Convicted Persons” states: Research…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued new guidelines for what juries are instructed about eyewitness identification. The instructions come almost a year after the court ruled that the current methods of identification resulted in a “troubling lack of reliability.”…
Kirk Odom became the second man in two months to have his rape conviction overturned due to erroneous hair matches. Odom, 49, was released in 2003 but only found to have been wrongfully convicted early this July after a court-ordered…
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…
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…