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Manitowoc woman who mistakenly identified Steven Avery in wrongful 1985 rape conviction appears on...
Herald Times Reporter via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMANITOWOC — For Manitowoc woman Penny Beerntsen, healing continues nearly 40 years after she was...
'Dismissed and ignored': Man freed after decades in prison for wrongful rape conviction
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA man who spent nearly three decades behind bars for a rape the victim said he did not commit was...
DNA exonerates 72-year-old, overturns longest wrongful conviction in US, officials say
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOfficers in search of a rape suspect arrested Leonard Mack 48 years ago — when he matched the...
Freed man seeks compensation for almost 40 years in prison on wrongful rape conviction
theGrio via AOL· 2 years agoNEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man imprisoned for nearly four decades until conviction in a 1979...
DNA exonerates man convicted in 1975 Greenburgh rape
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe conviction of a man found guilty of the gunpoint rape of a teenager in Greenburgh nearly half a century ago was thrown out Tuesday after DNA testing...
Sixth Teen Charged in Central Park Jogger Case Has 1989 Conviction Tossed
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMore than three decades after he and five others were wrongfully accused of raping a white woman in...
10 People Who Were Wrongfully Convicted And Then Set Free Years Later After Being Exonerated
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOne of our legal system's biggest failures is the wrongful conviction of innocent people across the...
Conviction review units have led to exonerations in Florida, New York, other states. Here's what...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Florida man who served more than 34 years of a 400-year sentence for an armed robbery conviction...
Man falsely accused of raping stepdaughter walks free after she spent 20 years insisting he didn’t...
The Independent US via AOL· 1 year agoNearly 29 years after his conviction for a crime he did not commit, Patrick Brown walked out of a...
'It's about time': Krivak acquitted in child's rape, murder after 24 years in prison
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAndrew Krivak, who spent 24 years in prison for the rape and murder of 12-year-old Josette Wright,...