Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
Jaymie Vaz · 23 August 2026
“It would have opened the floodgates to litigation by all exonerees’ ex-wives."
Guy Miles spent more than 18 years in prison for a 1998 Fullerton robbery he did not commit; Orange County prosecutors have now vacated the conviction after a Conviction Integrity Unit review.
22 August 2026
New Haven will pay two wrongly convicted men $15.25 million each — yet Connecticut's estate tax can still reclaim 12% of compensation the state itself paid.
21 August 2026
A Malaysian doctor argues that after police referred a Sabah hospital sexual harassment complaint to prosecutors and the case was classified No Further Action, the accused's presumption of innocence still counts for nothing in public.
20 August 2026
Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and social psychologist Carol Tavris on why the discredited idea of “repressed memories” is back — in Amy Griffin's memoir and Bessel van der Kolk's bestsellers — and what the research on fragmented trauma memories actually found.
19 August 2026
Juno-award winning musician Ashley MacIsaac has ended his defamation suit against Google over its AI overview falsely labelling him as a sex offender. He was originally seeking $1.5 million in damages, but filed a notice of discontinuance in July.
19 August 2026
Corey Young served 30 years for a 1995 Albany shootout he did not commit. He is now suing the city and two detectives for $80 million over coerced witnesses.
19 August 2026
Tyrone Noling has spent 30 years on Ohio's death row for a double murder he insists he did not commit; a rare clemency hearing let him put recanted testimony and an alternative suspect to the parole board.
19 August 2026
Acacia Lyn-Darr, exonerated in 2025 after nearly 12 years in prison, is suing Pueblo County and its officers over a conviction built on coerced testimony.
19 August 2026
George Bell served 24 years in prison before one of the city's highest-profile exonerations.
17 August 2026