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  1. Good news for Dean Gillispie in Ohio. He was #wrongfullyconvicted of 3 1991 rapes & exonerated in 2017. He sued the township and won a $45 million verdict in 2022. The township has been fighting it ever since, and SCOTUS just denied its appeal.

    dispatch.com/story/news/crime/ or archive.ph/wYWvA

  2. Massachusetts State Police deliberately withheld Alcotest calibration documents that the state supreme court ordered them to turn over. Those documents called into question some 27,000 #DUI convictions. #OfficialMisconduct #WrongfullyConvicted

    No word on any penalties for the MSP personnel involved in the conspiracy.

    Simply unconscionable conduct.

    archive.is/Cqmqm

  3. Sidney Holmes spent 34 years in prison before he was exonerated.
    abcnews.go.com/US/fight-exoner
    via ABC News App. Over 29,100 years in prison for innocent prisoners . Innocent blacks are seven times more likely than whites are, to be convicted #wrongfullyconvicted #criminaljusticereform #PrisonReform #PrisonIndustrialComplex

  4. Nick Anderson & Omari Daniels: Georgetown hires Adnan Syed after court tossed his murder conviction: Prosecutors have acknowledged Syed, subject of the true-crime ‘Serial’ podcast, was wrongly convicted

    "One of Syed’s roles is to provide research and other support for a hands-on undergraduate class called “Making an Exoneree,” in which students seek to help free innocent people from prison…"

    washingtonpost.com/education/2 #adnansyed #georgetownuniversity #wrongfullyconvicted