Carmen Mejia walked out of the Travis County Correctional Complex early Wednesday, free more than two decades after she was ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

In 1997, Thomas Sierra was convicted of a murder he had not committed. His conviction was based on two eyewitnesses who said they had been pressured into identifying Sierra as the perpetrator by a ...

With litigation accelerating and insurance premiums becoming more expensive, new research from Teletrac Navman holds that fleets are increasingly turning to safety technology as a legal defense. Some ...

Release of exonerated man delayed after cop claims to have new evidence DETROIT – An exoneration hearing will be held Wednesday afternoon for a Detroit man who was found to be innocent on charges he ...

Maryland Carey Law launches new exoneration clinic Both Maryland law schools now operate innocence projects Students gain legal experience by working real wrongful conviction cases Clinics have helped ...

Jason Hubbell (in red jumpsuit) poses with members of the Exoneration Justice Clinic during an evidentiary hearing in February 2025. (Exoneration Justice Clinic/University of Notre Dame Law) (CN) — As ...

Adam Nichols is Raw Story's Editor-in-Chief. He has more than 25 years of journalism experience, which includes working for the New York Daily News, the New York Post and DNAinfo, a startup site that ...

Dec. 3—After 12 years behind bars, repeated appeals in his 2007 murder conviction and finally being freed in 2019 on a plea to a lesser felony charge of aggravated assault, a Grundy County, Tennessee, ...

The headline is becoming more common: “Innocent Man Freed After Decades in Jail for Murder!” As a matter of statistical probabilities, it must be true that some innocent defendants are convicted. But ...