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9 May 2022, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
 Federal inmates  may  challenge their convictions, obtain sentence reductions,  or be freed from prison altogether through 2255 motions. [read post]
7 May 2008, 6:58 pm
The 2-1 ruling Monday, written by Judge Kim Wardlaw and joined by Judge Michael Hawkins, upheld that decision. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 9:47 am
Williams is one of a growing number of convicts -- more than 200 so far -- who have been freed from prison after DNA testing proved them innocent. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 11:15 am by Mario Madrid
Michael Morton spent 25 years in before new evidence forced Texas prosecutors to agree on Monday to release him from prison for beating his wife to death —a crime that he maintained he never committed, after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 7:13 am by Richard
This poor man has recently been freed from a Texas prison, after serving 25 years for a crime he did not commit. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 3:02 pm
Selected media coverage of Michael Morton's exoneration:Los Angeles Times: TX Man Convicted of Wife's Murder Freed after 25 Years (10/4/11)ABC News: Michael Morton Goes Free After Nearly 25 Years in Prison, Exonerated for Wife's Murder (10/4/11)Washington Post (via AP): DNA Evidence Frees TX Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Nearly 25 Years for Wife's '86 Slaying (10/4/11)The Texas Tribune: DNA Evidence Leads to Morton's Release after 25 Years… [read post]
25 May 2008, 3:15 am
Because this man has confessed to other brutal sexual assaults, he won't be freed. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 3:32 pm
After serving nearly 25 years for a murder he did not commit, Michael Morton was released from a Texas prison today after his 1987 conviction was overturned because of new DNA evidence pointing to another man. [read post]
29 Jul 2015, 1:28 pm by CJLF Staff
Illegal Immigrant Freed by Feds Suspected of Murder:  An illegal immigrant, released earlier this month by Ohio sheriff's deputies after U.S. [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 7:24 am
Today's Houston Chronicle reports, "Inmate expected to be freed as DNA is reviewed. [read post]
27 Aug 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Highlights from the career of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, newly pardoned by President Trump [Jon Gabriel/USA Today, Phoenix New Times thread on Twitter] Still vividly remembered: the Thomas-Arpaio raids on elected officials, judges, and journalists who’d crossed the sheriff [samples here and here from our coverage; Terry Carter, ABA Journal] Fran and Dan Keller, freed from Texas prisons after 21 years in Satanic abuse hysteria, finally getting official declaration of innocence (+ $3.4… [read post]
5 Aug 2009, 8:48 pm
Today, it was announced that Mark Ireland, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 1986 rape and murder that DNA evidence now shows he could not have committed, was freed. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 9:51 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Finance Washington: “Freed Agrees to Civil Penalty to Resolve Campaign Finance, Reporting Violations” by Alexis Krell for Tacoma News Tribune Elections Missouri: “Voters See ‘Unfair’ Ballot Language on Cleaner Missouri in Two Counties” by Austin Huguelet for Springfield News-Leader Ethics National: “Amy Coney Barrett, a Disciple of Justice Scalia, Is Poised to Push the Supreme Court Further Right” by Michael Kranish, Robert… [read post]
16 Oct 2010, 7:43 pm
Maureen Kanka, Megan's mother, said she is distressed by the provisions in the law named for her daughter that enable some offenders to be freed from its requirements. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 1:20 pm by Tanya Greene, ACLU
For the family members of Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers I find this as just one more way the State of Arkansas has harmed them. [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 12:04 pm by Patrick Anderson
In the case, Justin Michael Wolfe was convicted in the 2001 murder of his marijuana supplier, Daniel Petrole Jr. [read post]
2 Mar 2022, 5:01 am by Steven Lubet
[Freed from prison in an exchange with the PFLP, Odeh made no effort to hide her involvement in the Supersol bombing—until she decided to immigrate to the United States.] [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 8:21 am by Steve Hall
Michael Morton faced a throng of reporters last Tuesday just after a Texas judge freed him following 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. [read post]