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Attorneys representing the family of Marc Fogel, a teacher currently detained in Russia for drug charges, stated on Friday that the US Department of State has designated Fogel as wrongfully detained. Fogel’s attorney revealed that the Department of State made the designation in October. Russian authorities arrested Marc Fogel in August 2021 for drug trafficking. […]
Michael Sullivan spent more than 27 years in a Massachusetts prison for a murder he insisted for years he didn’t do. He was released in 2013 after a new trial and new DNA technology proved his innocence. Earlier this month, Sullivan was awarded $13m (£10m) from the state, though Massachusetts regulations cap rewards for wrongful […]
The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors wrongfully convicted after the catastrophic 1944 Port Chicago explosion. The move marks a significant victory in the long battle against racial injustice within the military. On July 17, 1944, during World War II, a massive explosion at a munition’s pier in Port Chicago, California, detonated over 4,600 […]
On Friday, Alexander’s family filed a federal lawsuit in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Delaware County, as well as the estates of the detectives and prosecutors on the case, calling their conduct “outrageous, malicious, wanton, willful, reckless and intentionally designed to inflict harm.” “They murdered my brother. That’s what they […]
The U.S. Army is correcting the records of 110 Black Soldiers wrongfully convicted in 1917, including one soldier from Altoona. Photo of William C. Nesbit in his uniform. William C. Nesbit was a Sergeant with the 3rd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment. It was one of the all-Black “Buffalo Soldiers” units. Nesbit, an Altoona native, was […]
A man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years has reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina involving a lawsuit accusing authorities of misconduct, the man’s lawyers said Tuesday. The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace […]
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