Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
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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.
4 October 2026
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.
1 October 2026
Alan Hall was wrongfully convicted nearly 40 years ago of murdering Arthur Easton. Two former police officers involved in the investigation have been found not guilty of perverting the course of justice.
12 August 2026
One of New Zealand’s worst wrongful convictions returned to court yesterday, 40 years after the murder and subsequent police investigation that led to it.
30 June 2026