False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments – Page 2

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Man Cleared of Murder After More Than 48 Years in Prison

Glynn Simmons, 70, of Oklahoma, was exonerated after a 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, prosecutors said. He served the longest wrongful sentence in the United States.

He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.

Karen Dannett hardly knew her father. But freeing the man imprisoned for killing him became a decades-long mission.

Two Men Are Exonerated in Decades-Old Manhattan Murders

Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were convicted in an era of crime and corruption that has created a wave of exonerations years later.

Ex-NYPD Detective’s Overturned Murder Convictions Have Cost New York $110 Million

Louis N. Scarcella, a former N.Y.P.D. detective, was accused of framing dozens of people for murder. The city and state have paid a steep price to settle claims over the past decade.