Yusef Salaam, one of the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five, is running in a competitive City Council race in Harlem. He described the former president’s indictment as “karma.”
Tag: False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments
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Police Relied on Hidden Technology and Put the Wrong Person in Jail
Randal Reid spent nearly a week in confinement, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.
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Court Reinstates Adnan Syed’s Murder Conviction in ‘Serial’ Case and Orders New Hearing
The Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a lower court had violated the right of the victim’s brother to have been notified of and to attend a hearing.
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NY to Pay Broadwater $5.5 Million After Wrongful Conviction for Sebold’s Rape
Anthony J. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in the assault in Syracuse, N.Y., which Ms. Sebold, a well-known novelist, described in her memoir “Lucky.”
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Secretive Network Rescues Russia’s Antiwar Dissidents in Nick of Time
Hundreds of people facing long prison sentences are being spirited out of the country by groups that arrange daring escapes, with one trip using six different cars over more than 4,000 miles.