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This is the first in a series of cases that Injustice Watch is featuring over coming weeks called “Unrequired Innocence.” Each of the
cases involves defendants given death sentences who have not been exonerated, despite significant evidence that emerged casting doubt on their guilt. The case of Larry Swearingen represents the only one of these cases in which the defendant has been executed.
Henry and Juan Johnson, wrongly convicted of murder, won a new trial after 11 years in prison. The prosecutor offered to let them walk free — if they pleaded guilty.
A federal investigation revealed 8 Baltimore police officers were stealing from suspects, planting evidence. Most of their victims pleaded guilty. Many were not.
You’ve been arrested and you have a choice: take your chances in court or plead guilty and go home with a criminal record?
Did you or someone you know plead guilty to something you didn’t do? We want to hear about it.
Lamonte McIntyre has sat in custody for decades, even as allegations of injustice swirled. A retired FBI agent and former police officers say more could have been done. McIntyre’s attorney wants to know: Will it be now?
Accusations of withheld evidence, undisclosed romance, and inadequate lawyering all compound the alleged errors that led to conviction of Kansas City, Kansas man for 1994 double homicide.
For 23 years, Lamonte McIntyre has been locked in a Kansas prison, insisting he had nothing do with the double murder of two men as they sat in a parked car in Kansas City, Kansas. A hearing this week on his case is expected to not only undercut evidence against him, but expose a flawed criminal justice system.
A state board uses an arbitrary and opaque process to decide whether prisoners convicted of committing violent crimes decades ago should be released, an Injustice Watch review has found. The process is wracked by subjectivity, and that problem is not confined to Illinois.
In 1993, Larry Kurina was paroled by the Illinois Prisoner Review Board after serving roughly 17 years for murder. After pleading guilty to a low-level felony in 2005, he has been back in custody since.
After all but giving up hope of release by the agency tasked with considering their parole, two inmates are searching for other ways out of prison.
