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A Fascinating Discovery Exonerated a Michigan Barber After Nearly Four Decades of Wrongful Imprisonment
After years of unsuccessful appeals, Paul Clark’s wrongful conviction was thrown out.
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After A Wrongful Conviction Caused A Black Man To Spend 24 Years In Prison, He’s Getting Paid
Darryl Anthony Howard will receive $7.75 million from the city of Durham.
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Man Might Get a New Trial after 24 Years in Prison: Still Claims Innocence
Anthony Sims has been granted another chance to prove he did not murder a Chinese woman in 1998. Sims claims his friend was the killer.
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Amber Guyger Is Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Murdering Botham Jean
Amber Guyger, the ex-Dallas cop convicted of murdering her upstairs neighbor Botham Jean after she entered his home uninvited and shot him dead, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison. The same Dallas County jury that found her guilty Tuesday of murdering the 26-year-old accountant last year as he sat in his living room…
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Jury Recommends White Supremacist James Alex Fields Spend Life Behind Bars for Charlottesville Attack
A Virginia jury recommended a life sentence for James Alex Fields, the avowed neo-Nazi who killed Heather Heyer when he drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year. Fields was convicted of first-degree murder last Friday, along with nine more charges including malicious wounding…
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Joe McKnight’s Killer Faces Up to 40 Years in Prison After Manslaughter Conviction
The answer to the question of whether or not a jury with only one black person on it would be able to mete out justice in the killing of former NFL running back Joe McKnight is “sorta.” After seven-and-a-half hours of deliberation Friday, a jury in Louisiana found Ronald Gasser, 56, guilty of manslaughter in…