A nonprofit organization committed to criminal justice reform, the Innocence Project works to free those who have been wrongly convicted and incarcerated.
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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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, 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 More
November 23, 2021
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two... More
November 18, 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... 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 More
June 14, 2021
