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Steven Lopez, a 48-year-old man with medium-dark toned skin and wearing a suit, looks teary-eyed as he listens during a court hearing.
Closing Argument July 30
“It’s Crushing”: The Lasting Trauma of the Exonerated
Proving your innocence is only part of the battle to put your life back together.
By Jamiles Lartey
Eric Lander, left, who was just appointed to be President Biden's science adviser, showing Peter Neufeld, right, who went on to co-found the Innocence Project, how to look at DNA in 1988.
Looking Back January 26, 2021
This Scientist Helped Free the Innocent Using DNA. Now Biden Wants Him in the Cabinet.
Some experts hope Eric Lander, the president’s choice for new science adviser, will crack down on bad forensics in courtrooms.
By Eli Hager
Christopher Tapp, right, and public defender John Thomas at a hearing at the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho that allowed Tapp to leave prison in 2017.
News July 16, 2019
In an Apparent First, Genetic Genealogy Aids a Wrongful Conviction Case
An Idaho man falsely confessed to a 1996 rape and murder.
By Mia Armstrong
Case in Point March 18, 2019
A DNA Test Might Help Exonerate This Man. A Judge Won’t Allow It.
North Carolina judge denies testing in a 1992 murder case, but lawyers want shell casings examined.
By Joseph Neff
Scott Brettschneider, a lawyer from Queens, N.Y., plotted to pay a murder witness to recant his trial testimony in order to free a convicted killer and rake in big bucks from a wrongful conviction suit, prosecutors say.
News May 5, 2018
Fake Innocence
A lawyer’s scheme to stage a phony exoneration and cash in.
By Joseph Neff
Life Inside February 22, 2018
I Sent an Innocent Man to Prison
A juror’s regret.
By D'shean Kennedy as told to Maurice Chammah
Michelle Miles, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, received a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison. She served 19 years before receiving clemency from President Barack Obama on May 5, 2016.
Commentary December 13, 2017
What It's Like to Get Clemency — One Year Later
Catching up with Obama’s clemency recipients.
Jonathan Perri
Henry McCollum, who was released from prison in North Carolina along with his half-brother after DNA evidence exonerated them in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
News October 24, 2017
Innocent, Disabled and Vulnerable
A judge protects an exonerated man from his lawyer.
By Joseph Neff
Feature May 22, 2017
The Accusation
Katie's father went to prison for raping her and her brothers. It was an unthinkable crime that broke her family apart. So why couldn't she remember it?
By Maurice Chammah
Chris Ochoa studies in the law library at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisc., in 2004. Ochoa was wrongly imprisoned for murder and rape.
Life Inside March 9, 2017
Facing Her Daughter’s Killer, at Last
But only after two wrongly convicted men were set free.
By Jeanette Popp, as told to Maurice Chammah
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