Innocence Project

Maurice Hastings was released from prison last year after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different suspect. More

March 2, 2023

Missouri judge overturns conviction of Lamar Johnson, who's served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing he has always said he didn't commit. More

February 14, 2023

DNA evidence previously submitted in the case belonged to an unknown man and all three of the convicted men were excluded as sources. More

January 25, 2023

Lamar Johnson, seeking freedom after 28 years in prison for a murder he denies committing, said he was with his girlfriend the night of the crime. More

December 15, 2022

Former prosecutor who sent Lamar Johnson to prison nearly 28 years ago defended his actions, including his use of testimony from a jailhouse snitch. More

December 14, 2022

Lamar Johnson has long maintained his innocence, and St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is backing his request to vacate his conviction. More

December 12, 2022

Law students at the University of Baltimore's Innocence Project Clinic were lectured by guest speaker Adnan Syed, who recently had his charges dropped. More

October 20, 2022

Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, according to a lawyer affiliated with the case. More

October 11, 2022

Baltimore prosecutors asked a judge to vacate Adnan Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, a case chronicled in the podcast “Serial." More

September 14, 2022

A Black man wrongfully convicted as a teenager for a New Orleans rape more than 36 years ago was ordered freed Thursday after a judge threw out his conviction. Sullivan Walter, now 53, used a handkerchief to wipe away tears as a state district judge formally vacated his conviction for a home-invasion rape. More

August 25, 2022

Court records show a motion to vacate the conviction of Cedric L. Dent, 47, in the shooting death of Anthony Milton was granted by a judge and the district attorney's office agreed not to continue prosecuting the case. The shooting happened outside a New Orleans supermarket. More

August 8, 2022

A Cuyahoga County judge ruled Cleveland man Charles Jackson was wrongfully imprisoned after he spent over 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was dismissed in 2019. More

July 11, 2022

Alexander Torres, a California man who spent 21 years in prison for a gang murder he said he didn't commit, has been declared factually innocent by a judge. More

June 1, 2022

A murder charge against 75-year-old Jane Dorotik was dismissed this week as she was getting ready for a second trial. More

May 18, 2022

Miami judge vacates life sentence of 55-year-old Black man Thomas "Jay" Raynard James, who prosecutors said was wrongfully convicted because of mistaken identity in 1991. More

April 27, 2022

Joaquin Ciria, who is now 61, was arrested in 1990 and convicted of a shooting death in San Francisco based on false witness testimony and police misconduct. More

April 19, 2022

A New York man who spent nearly 40 years trying to clear his name after a jury tainted by antisemitism wrongfully convicted him of arson has finally been vindicated. More

April 5, 2022

George and Melvin DeJesus were wrongfully convicted of the murder of a Pontiac woman in July of 1995. More

March 25, 2022

A Missouri man who has insisted for more than 20 years that he was wrongly convicted as a teenager of killing his mother has been granted parole. More

February 9, 2022

A Philadelphia man freed after 37 years in prison in a case tainted by perjured testimony accused the city of "outrageous police misconduct" in a lawsuit filed Thursday, the same day his 1984 murder case was dismissed. More

January 27, 2022

Family members of a slain woman and her daughter sat through a gruesome crime scene video that played in a Tennessee courtroom Monday — images of two blood-soaked bodies lying stabbed to death in awkward positions on the floor of their apartment, a knife resting next to the little girl's foot. More

December 13, 2021

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Moments before a Tennessee judge freed him from death row, Pervis Payne walked into a courtroom, hugged his lawyer and wept. Payne, who was sentenced to death in the 1987 killings of a mother and daughter, held attorney Kelley Henry tightly and thanked her for arguing […] More

November 23, 2021

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail. Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared Monday […] More

November 23, 2021

Two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are set to be cleared after more than half a century. More

November 17, 2021

Robert DuBoise was freed from prison in August 2020 after long-shelved, untested DNA evidence from a rape kit proved he was innocent. More

October 12, 2021

Jesse Johnson was accused of stabbing Harriet Thompson, a 28-year-old Black nurse’s aide, to death in her Salem home in 1998. More

October 7, 2021

Three men who were convicted of killing a woman in West Virginia 19 years ago were cleared of charges in the case after new DNA evidence was presented. More

October 6, 2021

Dennis Perry was convicted in 2003 largely on the testimony of his ex-girlfriend’s mother. More

July 20, 2021

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Eighteen-year-old Angie Dodge was raped and killed in her Idaho home a quarter-century ago and an innocent man wrongly served 20 years in prison for the crime. On Tuesday, the man authorities have said is the real killer was sentenced to life in prison. Brian Leigh […] More

June 14, 2021

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The effort to free Lamar Johnson, who has spent 26 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn’t commit, hit another roadblock Tuesday when the Missouri Supreme Court refused to grant a new trial. The case “is not about whether Johnson is innocent or whether there exists a remedy […] More

March 3, 2021