Innocence Blog

Friday Roundup: The Stories of Innocence, Before and After Exoneration

Posted: July 8, 2011 1:55 pm

Tavis Smiley sat down recently for a two-part PBS invterview with four men exonerated in Illinois after years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.

A review by the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project is exposing doubts about the police investigation of a Washington D.C. murder.

A Florida State Attorney recused himself after four new suspects were revealed in a case for which William Dillon was wrongfully convicted.

NPR reported this week on reforms in Dallas to make eyewitness identification procedures more reliable.

A Florida Today editorial calls on the state legislature to address reforms in eyewitness identification procedures.

A DNA mix-up caused by human error that led to a wrongful conviction of a Las Vegas man has prompted police to reanalyze more than 200 cases handled by a forensic scientist.

Two Canadian men who say they falsely confessed to a murder are seeking to overturn their convictions in Washington state with the help of the Idaho Innocence Project, an Innocence Network member.