Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
8 September 2026
Four organisations have sued the Department of Justice in federal court after it failed to release records on the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a federal police misconduct registry created in 2023 and shut down in early 2025.
Khloe Simmonds was jailed for seven and a half years for eight counts of perverting the course of justice, after making false rape allegations against a series of men between 2018 and 2026.
7 September 2026
A planned lawsuit claims the Department of Homeland Security lied when it accused Ramón Morales Reyes of threatening assassination.
5 September 2026
Iris Seabolt's felony murder conviction has been dismissed after 23 years, ending a case built on jailhouse informants who later admitted they had lied.
5 September 2026
Wendy McElroy on International Falsely Accused Day, marked each 9 September on Simon Warr's birthday, and why the safeguards of Western jurisprudence exist precisely because accusers sometimes lie.
5 September 2026
The Superior Court of Quebec has ruled that Cardinal Marc Ouellet was the victim of slander and defamation and falsely accused of sexual violence, ordering his accuser to pay 100,000 Canadian dollars for the damage to his reputation.
4 September 2026
Can the law still protect us in an age of “moral panic,” where we find ourselves condemning the innocent and protecting the guilty?
4 September 2026
Jerry Sandusky will withdraw from a hearing at which accuser Ryan Rittmeyer was due to recant, and pursue federal habeas relief instead.
3 September 2026
Meredith Kercher's sister has publicly urged Amanda Knox to reconsider Cartwheel, her solo show about the case that wrongly convicted her.
2 September 2026
Marilyn Mulero, sentenced to death at 23 for a crime she did not commit, has opened a West Side home for women who were wrongfully convicted or served more than a decade in prison.
2 September 2026