Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein and Netflix have announced they’ve settled the defamation lawsuit she filed four years ago over her portrayal in the streaming service’s miniseries about the five Black and Latino teenagers known as the now-exonerated Central Park Five.

Scott Peterson appeared virtually in court, nearly 20 years after he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body into San Francisco Bay in 2002.

The Innocence Project of Florida (IPF) helped 79-year-old Willie Williams overturn his wrongful conviction after spending 44 years in prison.

An Oklahoma judge has exonerated a man who spent 30 years in prison for a 1987 rape and burglary in Ada.

A Florida man exonerated of a 1983 rape and murder after serving 37 years in prison is suing over his wrongful conviction in which a questionable bite mark was critical evidence.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – After 37 years behind bars, a Florida man was formally cleared Monday of a 1983 rape and murder that DNA evidence proved he did not commit after a long-ago trial that relied on a sketchy jailhouse informant and faulty bite mark analysis. “This court has failed you for 37 years,” Nash said during the hearing, held remotely. “Today, it has finally succeeded.”DuBoise, 55, was convicted in the 1983 murder of 19-year-old Barbara Grams. “We're righting this wrong today, finally.”The exoneration came as a result of cooperation between prosecutors in Warren's office and the Innocence Project, which works to free prisoners who have been wrongly convicted. Given that, the killing of the teenager 37 years ago will return to the unsolved file.

CAMDEN COUNTY, Ga. – Attorneys for a man convicted of the 1985 murders of two people inside a Camden County church and the Brunswick District Attorney’s Office met with a judge on Wednesday to discuss his fate. It’s not safe for him in the prison, and he’s an innocent man,” Suzanne Baugh, Perry’s first cousin, told News4Jax. He 38 years old when he was arrested in 2000 in the 1985 murders of Deacon Harold Swain and his wife, Thelma. I-TEAM: Man convicted in 1985 Camden County church murders wants new trialOn Monday, June 29, the state filed papers saying it would not be prepared for a hearing on July 13. New DNA evidence in the 1985 murders excludes Perry, according to new court documents.

(CNN) - The family of Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed Nov. 20, told NBC Nightly News they'll keep fighting for him "until the end." "I'm hoping that we get a fair and just judge, and my baby will be home," Reed's mother, Sandra Reed, told the network in an interview. Rodney Reed has spent more than 21 years on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. "I know that there is somebody out there feeling us when we speak," Reed's brother Rodrick Reed. "That's a fight that we will see all the way through, until the end," Rodrick Reed said.

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