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LA Man Freed 19 Years After Wrongful Conviction: 'I Had a Juicy Steak'

LOS ANGELES -- It's been almost 20 years since Francisco "Franky" Carrillo has seen the ocean, tasted food in a restaurant or gone shopping. Now he's enjoying all these things and more as he tries to integrate himself back into a society he left when the first George Bush was president and the U.S. was fighting the first...

Texan's Conviction Overturned After 30 Years in Prison

DALLAS -- A Texas man had his conviction overturned Tuesday for a rape and robbery he didn't commit after serving 30 years in prison, more time than any other inmate subsequently exonerated by DNA evidence in his state. Cornelius Dupree Jr., 51, was formally cleared of the aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon...

Man Framed by NY 'Mafia Cop' Gets $9.9 Million

(June 4) -- A man framed for murder by an infamously corrupt detective who moonlighted as a mob hitman will get $9.9 million from New York City, the largest civil rights settlement in city history. Barry Gibbs, 61, served almost two decades in prison after former "Mafia cop" Louis Eppolito coerced witnesses and...

DNA Clears Inmate Held 35 Years for Rape

BARTOW, Fla. (Dec. 18) -- For years, James Bain insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister when a 9-year-old boy was kidnapped and raped. The victim had picked him out of a lineup, and Bain's repeated pleas for DNA testing were rejected until the Innocence Project of Florida got involved in his case this...

Background on innocence project

An Innocence Project is one of a number of non-profit legal organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice systems to prevent future injustice.

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