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4/25/20

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2 Black Men Released From Prison After Serving Over 17 Years for a Crime They Say They Didn't Commit

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3/9/20

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Man Maya Moore Advocated For Has Conviction Overturned

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3/9/20

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Ruling Allows Lamonte McIntyre Lawsuit to Move Forward in the Craziest Police Corruption Case Ever

Michael Harriot

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3/3/20

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3 Wrongly Convicted Black Men Who Spent 36 Years in Prison Set to Receive $2.9 Million Each

Michael Harriot

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2/13/20

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Man Convicted of Double Murder 25 Years Ago Is Free After New Evidence Emerges

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10/17/19

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Criminal Justice10/17/19

Criminal Justice10/17/19

Innocence Project New Orleans: A Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years Is Forced to Trade the Truth for His Freedom

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10/15/19

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Police Interrogation Firm Sues Ava DuVernay and Netflix, Claiming Defamation for When They See Us

Tonja Renée Stidhum

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6/6/19

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Criminal Justice6/6/19

Criminal Justice6/6/19

New Louisiana Law Allows Expert Testimony on the Flaws of Eyewitness Accounts of Crimes

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3/20/19

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Police Brutality3/20/19

Police Brutality3/20/19

San Francisco Man Gets $13M Settlement After Being Falsely Framed for Murder by Police

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6/6/18

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‘Evilest White Woman on Earth’: The Criminal Injustice of Terra Morehead

Michael Harriot

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5/30/18

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The Unofficial Gag Order of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): 16 Years in Prison, Still Not Allowed to Speak

Obaid H. Siddiqui

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5/25/18

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Stacey Abrams’ Sister Is Engaged to a Man Incarcerated 26 Years for a Rape and Robbery He Didn’t Commit

Michael Harriot

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5/14/18

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A Missouri Man Has Already Served Almost 2 Decades in Prison for a Murder He Didn’t Commit, but He Still Has Not Been Freed

Breanna Edwards

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3/24/18

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Innocent Man Awarded $1 Million After Spending 31 Years in Prison for Crime He Didn’t Commit

Terrell Jermaine Starr

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2/2/18

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The Movement2/2/18

The Movement2/2/18

Louisiana Man Exonerated by DNA Evidence After Serving Nearly 38 Years in Prison for Rape He Didn’t Commit

Kirsten West Savali

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12/21/17

8:52 AM

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NYC Man Exonerated After Serving 30 Years for Rape He Didn’t Commit

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11/23/17

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Jury Awards Man $15 Million for Spending 20 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

Michael Harriot

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11/15/17

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Black Man in Louisiana to Be Freed From Prison After Judge Overturned 1974 Conviction, but He Still Has to Pay $2,000 Bail

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8/25/17

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Detroit Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 25 Years, Claims in New Lawsuit That Police Deliberately Set Him Up to Take the Fall

Breanna Edwards

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8/18/17

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The Root Reviews8/18/17

The Root Reviews8/18/17

Crown Heights Exposes a Very Common American Problem: Wrongful Conviction

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