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Looking Back January 26
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
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
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
Commentary December 13, 2017
What It's Like to Get Clemency — One Year Later
Catching up with Obama’s clemency recipients.
Jonathan Perri
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
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
Case in Point September 26, 2016
The DNA Tests That Came Too Late to Save Two Men
Percell Warren and Nathaniel Epps died while fighting a rape conviction — but their battle still goes on.
By Andrew Cohen
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