This list of wrongful convictions in the United States includes people who have been legally exonerated, including people whose convictions have been overturned...
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Innocence Project List of miscarriage of justice cases List of wrongful convictions in the United States Overturned convictions in the United States Clarence Elkins...
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and correct wrongful convictions. There are two main methods for estimating the prevalence of wrongful convictions. The first is the number of exonerations...
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The Center on Wrongful Convictions youth clinic, part of the Center on Wrongful Convictions within Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law's Bluhm...
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their wrongful convictions. The Death Penalty Information Center (U.S.) has published a partial listing of wrongful executions that, as of the end of 2020...
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for wrongful conviction, formerly the largest settlement of its kind in United States history. DNA testing done in 2004 on semen taken from the crime...
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This is a list of notable overturned convictions in the United States. Blount County Bill Wilson was convicted of the 1912 murder of his wife and child...
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Central Park jogger case (redirect from Wrongful Conviction of Central Park Five)
in Newark, New Jersey, by the Trilogy Company. Law portal New York City portal 1980s portal Groveland Four List of wrongful convictions in the United...
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Death row (redirect from List of execution chambers in the United States)
Execution chamber List of wrongful convictions in the United States The organization notes their report does not include the thousands of executions it believes...
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Corrections Center in Aberdeen, Washington. List of wrongful convictions in the United States Predator: Rape, Madness, and Injustice in Seattle, ISBN 0-385-29935-4...
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Ryan W. Ferguson (redirect from Ryan Ferguson (wrongful conviction))
Elkins False memory syndrome List of wrongful convictions in the United States Overturned convictions in the United States Prosecutorial misconduct Shareef...
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on Wrongful Convictions, and Michigan Law professor Samuel R. Gross, who with Michael Shaffer wrote the report Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012...
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Dixmoor 5 (redirect from The Dixmoor 5)
dilemma Miscarriage of justice Overturned convictions in the United States "'Dixmoor 5′ Sue Over Wrongful Rape, Murder Convictions". CBS Chicago. October...
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Outcry (miniseries) (category Documentary television series about crime in the United States)
dilemma The Innocence Project List of wrongful convictions in the United States Stuever, Hank (2020-07-03). "'Outcry' follows the fascinating case of a Texas...
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Brian Banks (American football) (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
Tiffany Dupont as CIP attorney Alissa Bjerkhoel. List of wrongful convictions in the United States "California Births, 1905 - 1995". Family Tree Legends...
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Exoneration (category Wrongful convictions)
National Registry of Exonerations List of exonerated death row inmates List of wrongful convictions in the United States National Registry of Exonerations...
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Kirk Bloodsworth (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
inmates List of wrongful convictions in the United States Kirk Bloodsworth, The Justice Project, retrieved 2009-09-09, Kirk Bloodsworth is the first person...
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before the Supreme Court in New Zealand overturned his convictions. Due to the high number of notable wrongful conviction cases compiled for the United States...
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Sabrina Butler (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
Stories of Surviving Wrongful Conviction. List of wrongful convictions in the United States List of women on death row in the United States "Mississippi...
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George Stinney (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
instead of correctly stating that his conviction was vacated. List of people executed in South Carolina List of wrongful convictions in the United States Hannah...
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Henry McCollum and Leon Brown (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
Overturned convictions in the United States List of wrongful convictions in the United States "Henry McCollum". North Carolina Department of Public Safety...
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intended to reduce the likelihood of wrongful convictions in capital cases, requiring videotaping of confessions. When campaigning for the presidency, Obama...
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Kangaroo court (category Abuse of the legal system)
("one-shot players"). The term is known to have been used in the United States in 1841: an article in The Daily Picayune, New Orleans quotes the Concordia Intelligencer...
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Witness tampering (category Obstruction of justice)
alternative or additional charge; the courts of appeals are split on this question. Notable people in the United States convicted of witness tampering include...
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died in September 2001, six months after his exoneration, due to a head injury he sustained in an accident. List of wrongful convictions in the United States...
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in the United States Thomas Haynesworth List of wrongful convictions in the United States "Innocence: List of Those Freed from Death Row". Death Penalty...
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the United States. List of rampage killers in the United States List of mass shootings in the United States International: Lists of serial killers Ronald...
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Thomas Haynesworth (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
resident of Richmond, Virginia, who served 27 years in state prison as a result of four wrongful convictions for crimes for which he was exonerated in 2011...
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Police perjury (redirect from Police perjury in the United States)
motion Poisoning the well List of wrongful convictions in the United States Witness tampering Slobogin, Christopher (Fall 1996). "Reform The Police: TESTILYING:...
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Alexander McClay Williams (category Overturned convictions in the United States)
List of wrongful convictions in the United States Overturned convictions in the United States Capital punishment debate in the United States Wrongful...
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