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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· 23 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...
These wrongly arrested Black men say a California bill would let police misuse face recognition
San Jose Mercury News· 2 days agoIn 2019 and 2020, three Black men were accused of, and jailed for, crimes they didn’t commit after...
Netflix viewers unable to finish 'haunting' series as it'll have you breaking down 'in tears'
UNILAD· 6 days agoViewers admitted they struggled to finish heart-wrenching series despite it being brilliant. Netflix...