In the Texas criminal justice system, eyewitness misidentification is by far the leading cause of wrongful conviction – faulty eyewitness ID was implicated in 86% of Texas DNA exoneration cases. Two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 69-year-old man has been exonerated after spending 17 years in prison for second-degree murder. Cooley Law School’s Innocence ...

It had to be expected. Thirteen DNA exonerations in Dallas County in recent years; 13 men declared actually innocent by a criminal justice system reluctant to admit its mistakes. It seemed just a ...

Over the years, stories of wrongful convictions have peppered news reports - tragic stories of people sent to prison because of bad witnesses, bad evidence, bad attorneys, and even police misconduct.

Of the many things the first black district attorney of Dallas County is doing, none is more important than rethinking the concept of guilt and innocence.

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent years. Lance Shockley, a man on death row in Missouri, wanted items from the ...

Jon-Adrian (JJ) Velazquez, a New York man who spent half his life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, recently sued New York City and its police for US$100 million for his wrongful murder ...

Over his 34 years in prison, Shawn Tanner always maintained he was not guilty of murder, insisting on his innocence right up until his death in 2022. Now a years-long legal battle will grant his final ...

There are two new reports out Tuesday on race and wrongful convictions that show there were a record number of exonerations in 2016. They also found that innocent African Americans were more likely to ...

Race still matters in America. Justice is not completely blind. Anyone who believes otherwise should examine the case of Cornelius Dupree Jr., who was ruled innocent Tuesday after spending 30 years in ...