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Less than 7% receive payouts for wrongful convictions, sparking calls for reform
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoThey were both set free after appeal judges ruled that fresh evidence made their convictions unsafe....
Chicago settles wrongful conviction lawsuits for $50 million
Courthouse News Service· 2 days agoThe Chicago city council voted Wednesday to pay $50 million to four Black men who wrongly spent...
‘I’m not getting $14 million’: 12 questions with Robert DuBoise, a ‘Marked Man’ freed from prison
Tampa Bay Times· 21 hours agoTampa Bay Times reporters Dan Sullivan and Christopher Spata, who wrote The Marked Man, a four-part...
ECHR backs British Government over refusing compensation to miscarriage of justice victims
Daily Telegraph· 3 days agoThe Court of Appeal found there was scope for mistaken identity and that his alibi was faulty...
A New California Bill Would Regulate Police Use of Facial Recognition. These Falsely Arrested Black...
KQED· 3 days agoEyewitness testimony has proven to be a leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States....
An Idaho girl was raped and killed over 40 years ago. The man accused is now on trial
The Idaho Statesman· 3 days ago“It has been a long journey — 42 years — for Daralyn Johnson’s killer to finally be facing justice.”
La. bill proposes surgical castration for child sex offenders
The Day· 6 days agoLouisiana lawmakers on Monday approved a bill that would expand judges’ powers to sentence people convicted of certain sex crimes against children to physical castration. If passed into law, ...
Ava DuVernay Goes In On Ex-Prosecutor Linda Fairstein, Who Got ‘No Payment’ For ‘When They See Us’...
Black America Web· 6 days agoFormer NYC prosecutor Linda Fairstein was not happy with TV and film director Ava DuVernay when her...
Names and faces | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette· 7 days agoAva DuVernay and Netflix have settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a former New York City...
Why Americans aren’t electrified by EVs yet | Letters
Tampa Bay Times· 7 days agoIt’s not that Americans aren’t sold on electric vehicles. The vast majority of automobile buyers...