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Wrongful Conviction

State agency that investigates wrongful convictions could get cut

  • Apr 18, 2025
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'Central Park 5' members sue Donald Trump over debate comments

  • Oct 21, 2024

Durham agrees to pay Darryl Howard for wrongful conviction

  • Jun 1, 2024

Harnett County man's conviction overturned in murder of 7-year-old

  • Mar 20, 2024

Lawyers 'eager' to begin investigation in Scott Peterson case

  • Mar 13, 2024

Man exonerated of girl's murder files suit against Sampson Co. sheriff

  • Dec 28, 2023

Philadelphia man released 27 years after wrongful conviction

  • Dec 1, 2023

NC man's decades-long battle to prove his innocence

  • Aug 25, 2023

Latest Videos

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Judge approves $10M settlement in wrongful conviction case

  • Jun 13
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Amanda Knox, convicted, exonerated in roommate's murder, now telling children about experience

  • Mar 25, 2025
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Harnett County man freed from prison for murder after nearly 25 years

  • Mar 20, 2024
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Man wrongfully convicted of rape in 1975 cleared by DNA, gets hug from judge

  • Sep 6, 2023
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North Carolina man's decades-long battle to prove his innocence

  • Aug 25, 2023
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NAACP head says he'll camp at governor's mansion until Sharpe pardoned

  • Sep 30, 2021
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Exonerated of murder, man seeks full pardon from governor

  • Jul 9, 2021
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Cooper pardons Wilson man wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years

  • Jun 16, 2021

Latest Stories

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NYC district attorney moves to clear names of 2 men in Malcom X's 1965 assassination

Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Malcolm X, a New York City district attorney is moving to clear two men convicted as accomplices.

  • Nov 17, 2021

Dontae Sharpe granted full pardon of innocence from Governor Cooper

Dontae Sharpe was released from state prison in 2019 after serving 26 years for a 1994 murder in Greenville.

  • Nov 13, 2021

Woman details how she survived attack by serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells

In this struggle, Fabienne Witherspoon said she managed to get the knife away from Sells and stabbed him repeatedly.

  • Nov 12, 2021

Camped outside governor's mansion, NAACP leader presses Cooper for Dontae Sharpe pardon

The president of the NC NAACP vows to continue his sit-in as long as it takes to gets Gov. Cooper to grants a full pardon to Dontae Sharpe, who served 26 years for a murder he did not commit.

  • Sep 30, 2021

Exonerated of murder, Dontae Sharpe seeks full pardon from Gov. Cooper

Dontae Sharpe says a judge vacating his murder conviction and life sentence is not enough without a Pardon of Innocence issued by Gov. Roy Cooper.

  • Jul 9, 2021