It’s not unreasonable for the state to pay $5.5 million to a man who spent nine years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of trying to kill his sleeping wife with a hammer, an appeals court has ruled, upholding an …
A man recently exonerated in a 1989 New York City killing that happened while he was visiting Disney World filed papers Tuesday outlining plans to seek $162 million from the city, one of his lawyers said. By filing what’s called …
A Fairbanks, Alaska, lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at preventing wrongful convictions and compensating those who are sent to prison but later exonerated. Democratic Rep. Scott Kawasaki says he wants the guilty to be imprisoned and for innocent people to …
A lawyer wants a federal judge to order Clark County to pay $2.5 million in legal fees on top of the $9 million a jury awarded to a former Vancouver, Wash., police officer who was wrongfully convicted. In a motion …
An innocent Texas man was convicted of rape and robbery and served 30 years in prison before his conviction was overturned. The state paid him $2.4 million in compensation plus annuities of $13,000 per month. Five years later, this time …
Iowa’s fire marshal said Thursday that he has found “overwhelming evidence” that a man serving life in prison in a 1996 fire that killed his wife and child is guilty of arson, rejecting claims from defense experts that the case …
A mentally disabled man could get a $3.75 million settlement from the city of Rochester for a wrongful murder conviction. Douglas Warney, who has an IQ of 68, spent more than a decade behind bars after confessing to the stabbing …
A businessman who spent several years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of molesting his stepdaughter said Friday that he has reached a $15.5 settlement with the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit. Ted White was freed in 2005 …