Wrongful
A Black man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction has been fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop October 16, 2023, 5:33 PM ET • 4 min read KINGSLAND, Ga. — A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in […]
KINGSLAND, Ga. (AP) — A Black man who spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction was fatally shot Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting, identified the man as Leonard Allen Cure, 53. Cure […]
A federal jury found that sheriff’s deputies wrongly detained a Black family at a Northern California Starbucks and ordered compensation of $8.25 million. Aasylei Loggervale and her two daughters pulled into a Starbucks in Castro Valley, about 25 miles southeast of downtown San Francisco, in September 2019 when Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies handcuffed them in connection […]
According to a recent study of wrongful convictions, the number of people convicted of crimes who have been proved innocent has increased 70% in the last five years. An analysis of those cases revealed that race is a substantial factor in why people are wrongly convicted. The report, Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United […]
HOUSTON, United States A Black man who spent nearly four decades in prison for a murder he did not commit was released in the state of California on Friday after DNA tests showed he was not the killer. Maurice Hastings, 69, had his murder conviction overturned by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office after […]
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 […]
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