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Canada

Michael Higgins: Frances Widdowson sues Lethbridge university for $3M in defamation claim

She was accused of ‘hate speech’ and of lying, according to court documents

USA

Woman gets $29.5M settlement after jurors found Las Vegas police misconduct, attorney says

Kirstin “Blaise” Lobato has received a $29.5 million settlement from Las Vegas Metro after a federal jury found detectives fabricated evidence that put her behind bars for more than 15 years over a 2001 killing.

USA

Chris Rock Regrets Not Helping Childhood Best Friend’s Brother Who Spent 17 Years In Prison For Wrongful Murder Conviction: ‘It Still F**ks With Me, I Had The Means To Help Him And I Didn’t’

Chris Rock says he still regrets refusing to pay for a lawyer for Roger Logan, his childhood best friend’s brother, who spent nearly 17 years in prison for a 1997 Brooklyn murder before he was exonerated.

False allegations

Defendant says sorry to former UBC professor days before defamation trial to start

One of several accusers of former University of British Columbia professor Steven Galloway has issued a lengthy apology just days before a defamation trial in the case is expected to begin.

Georgia gave America its modern death penalty. Fifty years is long enough.

The modern death penalty in the United States emerged from court cases involving Georgia. Capital punishment should end because there is little recourse for the innocent.

Malcolm Scott shares his story on Wrongful Conviction Day, 10 years after being exonerated

Ten years after his exoneration, Malcolm Scott — the first person the Oklahoma Innocence Project helped free — recounts the false eyewitness testimony that cost him 22 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

USA

Rochester pays $140K to Wisconsin woman falsely accused of crime

The City of Rochester, Minnesota, has paid $140,000 to settle the federal lawsuit of a 69-year-old Eau Claire woman whom three police officers wrongly named as the suspect in a counterfeit-bill case.

USA

Chicago City Council to weigh $260.8 million settlement for 17 wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to ex-CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara

Chicago taxpayers could soon be shelling out more than $260 million dollars to settle cases tied to allegations that disgraced former police detective Reynaldo Guevara tortured 17 men into false confessions to crimes.

USA

Florida needs new rules to stop wrongful convictions

On Wrongful Conviction Day, the head of the Innocence Project of Florida urges the Legislature to adopt evidence-based eyewitness identification rules and guardrails on facial recognition, citing the eight years Dustin Duty spent wrongly imprisoned.

Hub Originals

Glenn Greenwald on the Cornell case and online mob justice

Seven Cornell students named as gang rapists in a civil suit, with no charges brought. Glenn Greenwald on due process, the accuser's own 2024 statement, and mob justice.