Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Dominique Leh · 10 October 2026
Exonerated former death row inmates and families joined a rally at the Texas State Capitol, warning that the justice system risks executing innocent people.
A documentary about Joaquin Jose Martinez, the first Spaniard exonerated from death row in the United States after his former wife's allegation sent him there, will be screened at the Utah Film Center.
9 October 2026
Curtis Flowers, who spent more than 22 years in prison and was tried six times for the 1996 Tardy Furniture murders before the charges were dropped, has died at 56.
9 October 2026
Fifty years after the US reinstated the death penalty, Innocence Project director Christina Swarns argues that case after case has exposed its unreliability, and that a Justice Department plan to fast-track death-row appeals raises the risk of executing the innocent.
8 October 2026
Thames Valley Police have agreed that the warrants used to search the homes of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were unlawful, and his lawyers say evidence seized should be excluded from any criminal trial.
8 October 2026
As Cornell hires Sally Yates to investigate a gang-rape allegation, Luke Rosiak recalls how Mary Jo White's report for the University of Rochester found the claims against professor Florian Jaeger unsubstantiated, and the university paid $9.4 million anyway.
8 October 2026
Justin Plummer, who spent 28 years in prison after being wrongly convicted twice of a 1998 murder, gives his first television interview to Will Mellor for the Crime+Investigation series Convictions Gone Bad.
7 October 2026
A federal jury has found the University of Maryland liable for failing to protect a male student from a smear campaign after he was cleared of sexual assault, in what his lawyer calls the first verdict treating false rape accusations as sex-based harassment.
6 October 2026
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.
6 October 2026
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.
5 October 2026