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SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) – Nearly 20 years after listening as a jury found him guilty of a murder he denied committing, Gerard Richardson on Tuesday heard a judge apologetically dismiss his case after ...

Charles McCrory had the chance to walk out of prison after 40 years. He didn’t take it. All McCrory had to do, after being behind bars for the majority of his life, was admit he killed his wife back ...

On April 25, Judge Alvin Sharp of the 4th Judicial District in Ouachita Parish set aside the murder conviction of Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, who has spent 27 years on death row for a crime he did not ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Duncan’s case fits with a long tradition of wrongful convictions in Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate's legal team ...

BOONEVILLE -- A 32-year-old man is set for a first court appearance Friday related to sexual assault after police reported DNA from bite marks on a child's neck linked him to the 2012 crime. Nathan A.