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Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? Fingerprint Evidence’s Troubling Flaws by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In March 2004, four commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, were bombed. Spain’s National Police recovered a blue plastic bag filled with detonators and traces of explosives. Forensic experts used the standard practice of fumigating the bag …
Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Nearly 150 Exonerations in 2024 Highlight Persistent Flaws in U.S. Criminal Justice System by David Kim by David Kim In 2024, 147 prisoners were exonerated for crimes they did not commit, an alarming number that underscores both the resilience of those wrongfully convicted and the systemic failures that led to …
Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Connecticut Compensates Exonerated Prisoners, Reforms Policing by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Connecticut is confronting its history of wrongful convictions by compensating victims and reforming police procedures. The state has moved to award $37.6 million to eight wrongfully convicted men who collectively spent 151 years behind bars. The …
Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
Bite Marks and Broken Justice: A Louisiana Man’s Life and Death Struggle Against Junk Science by David Kim by David Kim In a Louisiana courtroom last September, attorney Scott Greene stood before those in attendance and issued a stark warning: The video they were about to see would unsettle them. …
Article • March 15, 2025 • from CLN April, 2025
Nebraska Supreme Court Announces ‘Working Days’ for Purposes of ‘Temporary Domicile’ SORA Reporting Requirement Means Weekdays, Excluding Legal Holidays, and Reverses Conviction for Failure to Register by Sagi Schwartzberg by Sagi Schwartzberg The Supreme Court of Nebraska interpreted the definition of “working days” in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-4001.01(6) of the …
Hawai’i Supreme Court Reverses Murder Conviction for Prosecutorial Misconduct Based on Prosecution’s Improper Statements During Closing Arguments by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford The Supreme Court of Hawai’i reversed a murder conviction for prosecutorial misconduct where a deputy prosecutor described the defendant as a liar and inserted personal opinions concerning …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from CLN February, 2025
Seeking Justice for Two: The DNA Scandal That Shook a Community by by Justyna Madenska This article explores the wrongful conviction of David Hehn and the unresolved murder of Gay Lynn Dixon, revealing systemic failures in forensic evidence handling and the justice system’s pursuit of true justice. In 1982, the …
Las Vegas Jury Finds Detectives Fabricated Evidence Against Woman Who Spent 15 Years in Prison for Murder and Awards Her $34 Million by James Mills by James Mills A Nevada jury ruled that two Las Vegas homicide detectives fabricated evidence against a local woman in a 2001 murder. Kirstin “Blaise” …
Article • December 1, 2024 • from CLN December, 2024
Missouri Man Awarded Record $38 Million After Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Wrongful Conviction Settlement by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford A jury recently awarded a Missouri man $38 million dollars against Travelers Companies, Inc. and its subsidiaries after the insurance company refused to pay an $11 million settlement the man …
False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions: Known Causes and Steps to Eliminate Them by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A s of February 2024, the National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) at the University of Michigan has registered 3,475 postconviction DNA and non-DNA exonerations since 1989—an average of 100 per year. Of …
Article • December 1, 2024 • from CLN December, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Wrongfully Convicted Actor Exonerated After 24 Years in Prison by Jon-Adrian Velazquez’s wrongful conviction for the 1998 murder of retired NYPD detective Albert Ward was vacated on September 30, 2024, after spending over 23 years behind bars. Leaving court on that momentous Monday, Velazquez, now 48, wore a baseball cap …
Brief • August 5, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Amor v. Gomez, IL, Order, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 Case: 1:18-cv-02523 Document #: 385 Filed: 08/05/24 Page 1 of 1 PageID #:36828 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JEANNE OLSON, as successor plaintiff for WILLIAM E. AMOR, Plaintiff(s), Case No. 1:18-cv-02523 Judge John …
Texas Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence After 25 Years of Maintaining His Innocence by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Martin Lucio Santillan, now 50 years old, was fully exonerated in the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts in Dallas, Texas, on March 22, 2023. His 25 years of wrongful imprisonment …
False or Misleading Forensic Evidence Plays an Oversized Role in Wrongful Convictions by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The National Institute of Justice (“NIJ”) published a paper titled “The Impact of False or Misleading Forensic Evidence on Wrongful Convictions,” providing grim facts and figures on one of the …
Article • July 15, 2024 • from CLN July, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Cold Case Killer Kelly Siegler Is a True-Crime Celebrity. Did She Frame an Innocent Man for Murder? by Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith Part 1 The Prosecutor and the Snitch Ring “Cold Justice” star Kelly Siegler relied on jailhouse informants to win convictions despite reasons to doubt their credibility. by Liliana …
Article • July 15, 2024 • from CLN July, 2024
The 153 Exonerations in 2023 Include 19 Resulting From Threats or Sentences of Death by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian   The Death Penalty Policy Project (“DP3”) analyzed exoneration data compiled by the National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) for 2023. The results are disturbing. Another 153 convicted people were …
Brief • July 1, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Rubalcava v. City of San Jose, CA, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 14. Entire Agreement. This document is a fully integrated contract. It contains all agreements, covenants, understandings, representations, and warranties between the Parties concerning the subject matter of the Agreement. The Parties have made no other express or implied agreements, …
Brief • June 18, 2024
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction
Rubalcava v. City of San Jose, CA, City Council Meeting Agenda Minutes, Wrongful Conviction, 2024 CITYOF A SANJOSE CA ~ITAL OF SI LICON VALLEY CITY COUNCIL MEETING Amended Agenda Tuesday, June 18, 2024 11:00 AM LOCATION: Council Chambers - 200 E. Santa Clara Street Interpretation is available in Spanish and …
HRDC Files Civil Rights Action on Behalf of Wrongly Convicted Florida Man Who Spent 45 Years in Prison by Sam Rutherford by Sam Rutherford   On April 17, 2024, the Human Rights Defense Center (“HRDC”), CLN’s non-profit publisher, and the civil rights law firm of Loevy and Loevy filed suit …
Article • June 15, 2024 • from CLN June, 2024
Report Finds Inaccurate Field Drug Tests Major Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   A report published in January 2024 by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey School of Law revealed that false positives in presumptive …
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