Marvin Anderson: 210 years, and a lab notebook nobody threw away
Convicted at 18 on a rigged photo array, refused a new trial after the real attacker confessed, cleared only because evidence survived by accident.
3 November 2026
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After 17 Years in Prison, Innocence Project Client is Exonerated
John Anthony Holmes spent more than 17 years in Virginia prisons before the Court of Appeals vacated all eight of his convictions after his daughters recanted.
2 November 2026
Bone Valley, The Prosecutors and the case of Leo Schofield
Two former federal prosecutors set out to debunk an innocence claim and concluded the opposite. Gilbert King, Leo Schofield and The Prosecutors, in conversation.
16 October 2026
Cooley Innocence Project Celebrates 25 Years of Fighting Wrongful Convictions
Cooley Law School marked the 25th anniversary of the Cooley Innocence Project, Michigan's only post-conviction DNA innocence organization, with a gala bringing together exonerees, students and advocates including Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez and Dan Slepian.
15 October 2026
10 wrongful convictions in American history — and what freed them
10 wrongful convictions in American history, from false confessions to mistaken eyewitnesses, and the evidence that finally freed each man
14 October 2026
It’s Time to ‘Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death’
Fifty years after the US reinstated the death penalty, Innocence Project director Christina Swarns argues that case after case has exposed its unreliability, and that a Justice Department plan to fast-track death-row appeals raises the risk of executing the innocent.
8 October 2026
Appeals court stops exoneration in death penalty case
The execution of a woman who claims she was wrongly convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter has been thrown back into legal limbo.
29 September 2026
Man freed after decades on Utah's death row faces new challenges as legal fight continues
Douglas Carter, released after spending more than four decades on Utah's death row, is adjusting to life outside prison while attorneys seek a finding of factual innocence and potential compensation.
29 September 2026
Innocence Files reveals the really guilty
The Innocence Files shows police breaking rules, junk forensic science and prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence.
26 July 2020