Wrongly Convicted

• Amanda Knox to receive payout for police failing to provide lawyer, translator

  The European Human Rights Court ordered damages that Italy must pay Knox 18,400 euros ($27,000) in damages, costs and expenses.

  Crime

  Jan 24, 2019
  
• Convicted of murder at 15, man who claims innocence has chance at freedom

  A judge will consider whether Johnny Small should have been convicted now that a childhood friend recanted testimony accusing Small of the murder in 1988.

  Crime

  Aug 8, 2016
  
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• Court acquits mom who admitted killing stepchild based on faulty forensics

  A mother once branded a baby killer left Ontario's top court Monday free of the manslaughter conviction that has haunted her for the past 25 years.

  Crime

  Feb 29, 2016
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• Los Angeles to pay $24.3M to 2 wrongly convicted men

  The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to pay a total of $24.3 million to two men who each spent decades in prison for murder before they were exonerated.

  World

  Jan 19, 2016
• Judge tosses conviction of man in prison for 34 years for teen’s death

  A man who spent 34 years in prison for the rape and shooting death of a teenage girl was released from prison Thursday after a judge vacated his murder conviction, citing new DNA evidence.

  Crime

  Aug 13, 2015
• Amanda Knox vows to work on behalf of wrongly convicted

  Finally cleared of involvement in her roommate's 2007 murder in Italy, Amanda Knox says she will work on behalf of the wrongly convicted.

  Crime

  Apr 3, 2015