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Brooklyn, NY Black Man Released From 18-Year Prison Bid After Wrongful Conviction

Sheldon Thomas, 35, was arrested and charged after a witness chose the photo of a man with the same name.
03/11/2023
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Former Wu-Tang Clan Affiliate Who Spent 23 Years In Prison Over Crime He Didn't Commit Awarded $7 Million

Grant Williams has been out on parole since 2019.
05/25/2022
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Black Man, Wrongfully Imprisoned For Two Decades, Sues Kansas County For $93 Million

Lamonte McIntyre served 23 years for a crime he didn't do.
03/22/2022

John Artis, Wrongfully Convicted With Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, Dies At 75

Overshadowed by Carter, Artis also helped to expose racial bias in the criminal justice system.
11/15/2021

Wrongly Convicted Man Spent Nearly 5 Years In Prison After Hertz Didn’t Provide A Receipt That Proved His Alibi

'There’s no dollar figure that’s going to make this right.'
03/12/2021
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Judge Frees Detroit Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder At the Age of 14

23-year-old Davontae Sanford is a free man now.
06/09/2016

New Orleans Man Walks Free After Serving 23 Years in Prison for Wrongful Conviction

Robert Jones's murder conviction has been vacated.
11/23/2015
Bobby Johnson - Take a look at recent cases where justice was finally served. — Britt Middleton, Patrice Peck and Dominique Zonyéé After spending nine years in prison for a 2006 killing, Bobby Johnson was released from prison on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. Johnson's supporters say he was coerced into confessing that he killed 70-year-old Herbert Fields during a robbery. Prosecutors requested that the judge vacate Johnson's sentence. (Photo: Arnold Gold/New Haven Register via AP) 

Wrongfully Incarcerated: 21 Cases You Should Know

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David McCallum

Wrongfully Convicted Brooklyn Man Freed After 29 Years in Prison

David McCallum was cleared of a 1985 homicide.
10/16/2014
Michael Phillips

Wrongfully Incarcerated Texas Man Cleared After Serving 12-Year Sentence

Texas man pleaded guilty to a rape he did not commit.
07/28/2014

This Day in Black History: April 25, 1989

James Richardson is exonerated after 21 years in prison.
04/25/2014