Ulysses Rodriguez Charles served 17 years in Massachusetts prison for a rape and robbery he didn’t commit before he was exonerated in 2001. In June, he was arrested and jailed pending deportation to his native Trinidad, despite his pending civil rights lawsuit against the Boston Police Department. His mother, who lives in Boston, said authorities […]
Nine months after he was exonerated in Houston, Ronnie Taylor is building a new life. He lives in Atlanta and is married to his longtime girlfriend, Jeanette Brown, who waited for him while he served 14 years behind bars. He owns his own lawn care business.
(He) says that "everything's going lovely, man," and only when […]
After spending two decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Scott Fappiano was exonerated on October 6, 2006. Tuesday marked his two-year anniversary.
Fappiano was convicted of a Brooklyn, New York, rape in 1983 and sentenced to 20-50 years in prison. The victim of the crime was the wife of a New York […]
Jerry Miller spent nearly 25 years in Illinois prison for a rape he didn’t commit, and one year on parole as a registered sex offender, before DNA testing obtained by attorneys at the Innocence Project proved his innocence. On April 23, 2007, he became the 200th person exonerated by DNA testing in U.S. history. Yesterday, […]
As the deadline nears for Michigan lawmakers to renew a DNA access bill, there is speculation about when - or whether - the State Senate will act to extend the rights of prisoners to apply for DNA testing that can prove their innocence.
Donna McKneelen, the co-director of the Innocence Project at Cooley Law School in […]
After Detroit officials closed the city’s police crime lab two weeks ago, prosecutors vowed to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the lab’s 10 percent error rate. But defense attorneys said yesterday that a review by prosecutors isn’t good enough, and they called for an independent audit of the lab before it […]
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet on Friday to discuss the fate of Troy Davis, who has been on Georgia’s death row since 1989 for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Although some observers had expected the justices to discuss the case yesterday, they issued orders in other cases and stayed […]