Wrongful Conviction

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Austin Reaches $35 Million Settlement With Men Exonerated in 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders

City Council must approve the deal, which officials say would require borrowing.

Kim Kardashian’s $145,000 Fee Bid Faces Challenge From Man She Misidentified

Fargo Police Tighten Facial Recognition Use After Wrongful Jailing From AI Match

Gérard Jugnot’s Mauvaise Pioche Draws Harsh Early Reviews

Amanda Knox Turns Her Ordeal Into Stand-Up, Drawing Support and Dissent

Brooklyn Judge Vacates 2007 Robbery Conviction, Freeing Kenneth Windley After 19 Years

Chicago Panel to Vote on $29 Million in Guevara Wrongful-Conviction Payouts

Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson to Make Broadway Debuts in The Fear of 13 as Previews Start March 19

Sundance Premiere ‘When a Witness Recants’ Confronts the Harlem Park Three’s Wrongful Convictions

Dallas County Symbolically Declares Tommy Lee Walker Innocent in 1953 Murder

Bavaria Reaches €1.31 Million Settlement With Manfred Genditzki Over Wrongful Imprisonment

Baltimore Approves $14 Million Settlement in Gary Washington Wrongful-Conviction Case

Hamilton County Prosecutor Dismisses Elwood Jones Murder Case With Prejudice

Peter Sullivan Says Police Beat Him Into False Confession as DNA Reinvestigation Tests Hundreds

Wayne County Publishes Wrongful-Conviction Review, Prosecutor Pledges Broader Case Audits

Survey Finds Unanimous Scholar Support for Ban on Prosecutors’ Appeals to Start Retrials

Acquitted After Six Years in Preventive Detention, Brazilian Woman Dies of Cervical Cancer Two Months Later

Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Reply on Compensation Pleas by Acquitted Death-Row Inmates

After Exoneration, Subu Vedam Is Detained by ICE on a 1980s Deportation Order

Mexican Plaintiff Seeks Recusal of Two Supreme Court Ministers From Preventive Detention Debate