Joseph Frey was exonerated with the help of attorneys at the Wisconsin Innocence Project after spending nearly 20 years in prison for a wrongful conviction. In 1994, Frey was convicted of sexually assaulting a female college student at knifepoint and…
The Department of Justice recently agreed to waive procedural bars to re-open and review more than 2,000 criminal cases between 1985 and 2000 in which the FBI conducted microscopic hair analysis of crime scene evidence. This comes after three men were exonerated…
On June 24th, Uriah Courtney was exonerated after serving eight years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In 2004, a 16-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped near San Diego. Although the girl could not clearly identify the…
NCIP and Orrick, Herrington, Sutcliffe client George Souliotes, whose conviction was overturned last month after he demonstrated “actual innocence,” will be retried, Stanislaus County prosecutors announced Monday. Read the LA Times story here.
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…
Faulty fire science has contributed to another wrongful conviction. Louis Taylor, who spent 42 years in prison wrongfully convicted of setting a hotel fire in 1970 that killed 29 people in Tucson, Arizona, was released last Tuesday. New methods of…
A Texas court reversed Ed Graf’s murder and arson convictions this week after experts determined that the science used to convict Graf was likely faulty. While the court declined to issue a finding of actual innocence, it did say, “False…
Courts and police in the District of Columbia will be changing their policies on eyewitness identification and informants after several wrongful convictions. The changes come at the recommendation of a task force created by D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Lee…
At a hearing this morning in Oakland, Judge Jon Rolefson ordered his release after the District Attorney dismissed all charges stemming from an attempted murder. Thanks to the Keker & Van Nest team for their countless hours on this case!…
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…