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The Texas Innocence Project estimates that Texas prisons contain 3,000 to 9,000 innocent people, which is about 2% to 6% of the total prison population. “All it takes is a false accusation and a ...
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
Melissa Lucio has been on death row in Texas since she was convicted in the death of her 2-year-old daughter ... Ms. Lucio's son and daughter-in-law, in a statement shared by The Innocence Project ...
The execution of Robert Roberson - a Texas man who was convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter – faces further delay after the judge in the case voluntarily recused herself.
Timothy Brian Cole (July 1, 1960 – December 2, 1999) was an American military veteran and a Texas Tech University student wrongfully convicted of raping a fellow student in 1985. Cole attended two years of college followed by two years of service in the U.S. Army. After his Army service, he returned to college at Texas Tech in Lubbock. [1]
In 2006, the Innocence Project took Dupree's case and carried out a forensic examination of the case evidence in 2010. He was represented by a legal team that included project co-founder Barry Scheck. [7] Dupree was paroled in July 2010 and married his longtime fiancée Selma Perkins the day after his release. [5]
A Texas mother convicted of murdering her 2-year-old child has been granted a stay of execution just two days before she was scheduled to die. ... made a statement through the Innocence Project ...
Charles Chatman (born 1961) served 26 years in prison due to a wrongful conviction.He had been convicted in 1981 at the age of 20 of aggravated rape and sentenced to life in prison.