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Report Reveals Alarming Amount of Systemic Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct
The report, “Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent: The Role of Prosecutors, Police and other Law Enforcement,” highlights examinations conducted…
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Exonerated: Blacks More Likely to Be Falsely Convicted
Black people convicted of murder or sexual assault are significantly more likely than their white counterparts to be later found…
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Death Row’s Other Killers
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Glenn Ford, 64, convicted of murder in 1984, spent a quarter-century on the death…
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Feds to Create Wrongful Convictions Unit
by Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – U.S. Attorneys across the nation are professional prosecutors, making sure criminals are…
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Blacks are Still Majority of the Wrongfully Convicted
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When a Baltimore grocery store employee fingered 26-year-old Michael Austin for…
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