Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Julia Bonavita · 17 October 2026
A Suffolk County jury awarded former MIT professor David Sabatini $6 million after finding that Kristin Knouse, a younger colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct, had defamed him, and rejected her counterclaims.
Two former federal prosecutors set out to debunk an innocence claim and concluded the opposite. Gilbert King, Leo Schofield and The Prosecutors, in conversation.
16 October 2026
A New Mexico judge has dismissed an indictment against actor Timothy Busfield that accused him of criminal sexual contact with a child, citing prosecutorial misconduct and errors that undermined the grand jury process.
16 October 2026
Cooley Law School marked the 25th anniversary of the Cooley Innocence Project, Michigan's only post-conviction DNA innocence organization, with a gala bringing together exonerees, students and advocates including Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez and Dan Slepian.
15 October 2026
A Cornell alumnus argues that the rush to judgment over the 'Jane Doe' allegations against seven Chi Phi members abandons the presumption of innocence, and that mothers of young men are watching with alarm.
15 October 2026
Reggie Dillard, exonerated in February after 27 years in prison for the 1998 killing of Christopher Thomas, is suing the city of Elkhart, its police officers and county prosecutors, alleging they conspired to frame him.
15 October 2026
A Baltimore officer was convicted of falsely reporting that a man he chased had tripped and kicked him, and a second officer of assaulting the man with pepper spray after he surrendered.
14 October 2026
The IOPC has found the Met's handling of Graham Linehan's complaint about his arrest at Heathrow was not reasonable and proportionate, and ordered it to reinvestigate, including whether he was discriminated against.
14 October 2026
Opinion: Why was it in taxpayers’ interest for UBC to stretch this case out for eight years, shedding dollars along the way?
14 October 2026
10 wrongful convictions in American history, from false confessions to mistaken eyewitnesses, and the evidence that finally freed each man
14 October 2026