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  2. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This list of wrongful convictions in the United States includes people who have been legally exonerated, including people whose convictions have been overturned or vacated, and who have not been retried because the charges were dismissed by the states. It also includes some historic cases of people who have not been formally exonerated (by a ...

  3. 'One of the worst' wrongful convictions: Man falsely IDed ...

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    These kinds of eyewitness errors are common in wrongful conviction cases. The Innocence Projects says that eyewitness misidentification played a role in 69% of convictions overturned by DNA evidence.

  4. List of miscarriage of justice cases - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.

  5. Miscarriage of justice - Wikipedia

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    A series of wrongful convictions were uncovered in the 2010s which had a large impact on the judicial system and undermined public trust in the Chinese justice system. [58] [59] [60] Zhao Zuohai was one of the wrongful convictions, who had to serve 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. The alleged victim that he murdered had ...

  6. Elkhart reaches $11.7 million settlement over wrongful ... - AOL

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    Andrew Royer, who spent 16 years in prison after falsely confessing to the killing of an elderly woman, has reached an $11.7 million partial settlement with the city of Elkhart over his wrongful ...

  7. Erin Moriarty on what we owe to wrongfully convicted - AOL

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    After spending years behind bars for crimes they didn't commit, some men and women who have been wrongfully convicted have received their freedom. But as Erin Moriarty points out, for many ...

  8. Wrongful conviction of Steve Titus - Wikipedia

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    The wrongful conviction of Steve Titus was a miscarriage of justice in which Steve Gary Titus [1] (1949–1985), [2] an American businessman, was convicted wrongly of rape. Titus was dismissed from his job after the conviction and, though the charges were soon dismissed, he became long term unemployed. [ 3 ]

  9. These teams work to overturn wrongful convictions, freeing ...

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    The registry generally defines an exoneration – a subset of wrongful convictions more broadly – as a case in which a person is relieved of all consequences of a criminal conviction as a result ...