Legal News Stories

Finding Evidence to Help the Wrongfully Convicted

July 6, 2006
New York Fails at Finding Evidence to Help the Wrongfully Convicted

By JIM DWYER
Alan Newton, a former bank teller from the Bronx, is due to leave prison today after serving 22 years for a rape he did not commit — a victim first of mistaken identification, then of a housekeeping […]

DNA Exonerations

Ex-Inmate’s Malpractice Suit Is Settled With Noted Lawyers

 

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: November 21, 2006
Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld, founders of a legal clinic that pioneered the use of DNA technology to help free innocent prisoners, have agreed to pay $900,000 to a man wrongly […]

Innocent

Bournemouth Innocence Project Coming Soon!
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