The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office will review cases involving the five officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols and could look back at hundreds of others involving its now-disbanded Scorpion unit.
Tag: False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments
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A Florida Judge Finds a New Job: Defending an Inmate
In a coda to the wrongful-conviction podcast “Bone Valley,” Judge Scott Cupp says he’ll step down to spring a man serving a life sentence for murder.
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Ex-Detective Faces Perjury Trial, Accused of Lies That Led to Jail Terms
Joseph Franco is charged with six counts of perjury after what authorities said were the wrongful arrests of five people. His involvement torpedoed hundreds of prosecutions in New York.
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They Won Guantánamo’s Supreme Court Cases. Where Are They Now?
The three former Guantánamo prisoners who defeated George W. Bush at the Supreme Court in landmark cases are ensconced in family life. We caught up with two of them. One is a home-heating serviceman in central England; the other is an Uber driver in the French Riviera.
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Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’ Is Hired by Georgetown University
The university said that Mr. Syed, who spent more than two decades in prison, will work with its Prisons and Justice Initiative to help wrongfully convicted people.