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Lawyer says he was lured to Alabama strip club, framed with fentanyl – now he’s suing the city and police

Atlanta attorney Terry Bailey and his driver are suing Prichard, Alabama, alleging a police officer now under federal indictment set them up to be arrested on fentanyl-trafficking charges that were later dismissed.

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‘I’m a Victim of Prejudice’: Black Teen Arrested for Carjacking Despite School Alibi, Wore Ankle Monitor for 7 Months Until Reporter Questioned Case

Baltimore prosecutors kept 17-year-old Deryl Bright Jr. on house arrest with an ankle monitor for seven months over a carjacking that happened while he was in class, dropping the charges only after a Baltimore Sun reporter asked about them.

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Chris Rock Regrets Not Helping Childhood Best Friend’s Brother Who Spent 17 Years In Prison For Wrongful Murder Conviction: ‘It Still F**ks With Me, I Had The Means To Help Him And I Didn’t’

Chris Rock says he still regrets refusing to pay for a lawyer for Roger Logan, his childhood best friend’s brother, who spent nearly 17 years in prison for a 1997 Brooklyn murder before he was exonerated.

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Defendant says sorry to former UBC professor days before defamation trial to start

One of several accusers of former University of British Columbia professor Steven Galloway has issued a lengthy apology just days before a defamation trial in the case is expected to begin.

Georgia gave America its modern death penalty. Fifty years is long enough.

The modern death penalty in the United States emerged from court cases involving Georgia. Capital punishment should end because there is little recourse for the innocent.

Malcolm Scott shares his story on Wrongful Conviction Day, 10 years after being exonerated

Ten years after his exoneration, Malcolm Scott — the first person the Oklahoma Innocence Project helped free — recounts the false eyewitness testimony that cost him 22 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

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Rochester pays $140K to Wisconsin woman falsely accused of crime

The City of Rochester, Minnesota, has paid $140,000 to settle the federal lawsuit of a 69-year-old Eau Claire woman whom three police officers wrongly named as the suspect in a counterfeit-bill case.

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Chicago City Council to weigh $260.8 million settlement for 17 wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to ex-CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara

Chicago taxpayers could soon be shelling out more than $260 million dollars to settle cases tied to allegations that disgraced former police detective Reynaldo Guevara tortured 17 men into false confessions to crimes.

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Florida needs new rules to stop wrongful convictions

On Wrongful Conviction Day, the head of the Innocence Project of Florida urges the Legislature to adopt evidence-based eyewitness identification rules and guardrails on facial recognition, citing the eight years Dustin Duty spent wrongly imprisoned.