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A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated. Ronnie Long, 68, settled his civil lawsuit with the city of Concord, about 25 miles northeast of […]
A Central Park entrance was renamed the “Gate of the Exonerated” on Monday in honor of the “Exonerated Five”: the five men wrongfully convicted in the 1989 rape of a Central Park jogger. One of the “Exonerated Five,” Raymond Santana, said in a statement, “I never reentered Central Park because of what happened to me […]
1/2 Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana Jr., Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam, and Antron McCray (L-R), formerly known as the Central Park Five. On Monday, New York City officials voted to name an entrance to Central Park in honor of their unjust prosecution and conviction. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Dec. 13 (UPI) — […]
CNN — An entrance to Central Park will be named the “Gate of the Exonerated” to honor the group of Black and Hispanic teens known as the “Central Park Five” who were wrongfully convicted of beating and raping a White female jogger in the park more than 30 years ago.
Photos: Innocence Project Mallory Nicholson spent 21 years in prison for crimes he did not commit. In addition to losing decades of his freedom, when he was released on parole in 2003, he was forced to register as a sex offender for another 20 years for these same crimes. And he was ostracized by his […]
Nailah Sims’ research and producing contributions to a 6-part Netflix documentary in 2020 helped exonerate two men convicted of killing the civil rights leader. BROOKLYN, N.Y. — When a judge exonerated two men wrongfully convicted for the 1965 murder of civil rights leader Malcolm X, it was in part due to the work of Brooklyn-based […]
By mid-afternoon on Saturday, a fundraiser for a man who spent 43 years in prison before a judge in Missouri this week overturned his conviction in a triple murder had raised more than $1.4m. The Midwest Innocence Project set up the GoFundMe page as . . .
A judge in the US state of Missouri on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has spent over four decades in prison. Kevin Strickland, a 62-year-old Black man, was found guilty of a triple homicide in 1979 and was sentenced to life in prison by an all white jury. Judge James Welsh ordered […]
A 22-month investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s Office and lawyers for the men — Muhammad A. Aziz and the late Khalil Islam — found that evidence of their innocence, including FBI documents, was withheld at trial. In an interview with The New York Times, which first reported the news, Vance apologized for […]
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