John Turner spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. A judge overturned his conviction after IndyStar's reporting led to new evidence.

No. Several recent reports have found only about one in four immigrants being detained have criminal convictions.

A Chicago man who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he did not commit is now suing the police officers who put him there. Jerry Herrington's murder conviction was vacated in March. The lawsuit said ...

Police coerced a false confession from a man accused of a violent crime despite his time-stamped alibi, and he went to prison for three decades, attorneys in Tennessee said. Now, Scott Minton is ...

Knox was appealing a 2024 conviction for falsely accusing her former boss of murdering her roommate, an assertion she made under aggressive police questioning Paula Lobo/Disney General Entertainment ...

Jodi Arias, convicted in 2013 for the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, may be preparing to pursue another legal challenge to her conviction. Nearly a decade after her high-profile ...

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Prosecutors are appealing the ruling.

As noted in my first (In)Justice System entry, jury trials are on the verge of extinction. And, this decline in jury trials has coincided with an increase in plea convictions. In this series of blog ...