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Hit in DNA database exonerates man 47 years after wrongful rape conviction
CBS News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA New York man was officially exonerated on Tuesday 47 years after he was found guilty of rape in...
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...
DNA testing leads to exoneration of California man imprisoned nearly 3 decades on kidnapping and...
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAfter a California man spent nearly three decades in prison for kidnapping, sexual assault and...
Black man exonerated 47 years after being found guilty of rape: ‘I can finally breathe’
The Independent UK via AOL· 8 months agoThe wrongful conviction of a Black man for rape was reversed nearly five decades later in what is...
Officials refused to examine DNA in wrongful conviction rape case ‘because of cost’
The Independent UK via AOL· 9 months agoA body set up to investigate miscarriages of justice failed to pursue DNA evidence in the case of a...
Wrongful Convictions Reveal the Flaws of the Criminal Justice System
Capital B via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDerrick Hamilton turned 18 behind bars. A few months later in 1983, he was sentenced to 25 years to...
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...
How much should people get after a wrongful conviction? In Mass., there's a limit
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 11 months agoGetting freed from prison for a crime one did not commit is no easy task. And in Massachusetts,...
Missouri had the chance to do right for the wrongly convicted. Mike Parson said no | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAlthough Missourians Kevin Strickland and Lamar Johnson were both recently found to have been...
3 men who have spent over two decades in prison appeal murder convictions on new DNA evidence
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThree men who have served over two decades in prison for the murder of a 70-year-old woman in her...