Center on Wrongful Convictions

NEWS AND EVENTS

4/9/2009 - Nathson Fields is 19th man Exonerated from Illinois' Death Row

3/9/2009 - Randy Steidl Urges NM Lawmakers to Abolish Death Penalty

3/1/2009 - Anthony Harris: A 12-Year-old Confesses to Murder

3/1/2009 - U.S. Supreme Court Hears DNA Testing Case

2/5/2009 - National Academy of Sciences Report Critical of Nation's Crime Labs

1/28/2009 - Despite Freedom Johnny Briscoe Struggles To Be Free

1/27/2009- Texas Hires Nationally Renowned Arson Expert To Review Evidence In Executed Man's Case

1/6/2009 - Ex-Illinois Death Row Prisoner Madison Hobley One Step Closer to $6.5 Million Settlement

1/4/2009 - Burris's Failure in Rolando Cruz Case

12/18/2008 - Paula Gray Receives Settlement

11/25/2008 - New York Releases Steve Barnes After 19 Years

11/21/2008 - Feds Rule Confession Coerced in Buddhist Temple Murders

10/21/2008 - Jon Burge Indicted

10/7/2008 - Gary Gauger's New Book: In Spite of the System

9/5/2008 - Charges Dropped Against Alton Logan

8/12/2008 - Ohio Frees Robert McClendon After 18 Years

7/4/2008 - Illinois Governor Grants 19 Pardons

7/1/2008 - New York Won't Retry Marty Tankleff

6/30/2008 - Texas Prisoner Patrick Waller Exonerated By DNA After 16 Years

6/30/2008 - Judge Says Chicago PD Won't Have to Release Controverial Data

6/29/2008- Texas Posthumously Exonerates Timothy Brian Cole

5/28/2008 - Dean Cage Exonerated After 14 Years

5/22/2008 - Illinois Supreme Court Overturns CWC Client Alan Beaman's Conviction

7/1/2008 - New York Won't Retry Marty Tankleff

6/30/2008 - Texas Prisoner Patrick Waller Exonerated By DNA After 16 Years

6/30/2008 - Judge Says Chicago PD Won't Have To Release Controversial Data

6/29/2008 - Texas Posthumously Exonerates Timothy Brian Cole

5/28/2008 - Dean Cage Exonerated and Released After 14 Years In Prison

5/22/2008 - Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Alan Beaman's Conviction

5/2/2008 - Guy Randolph Exonerated After 10 Years In Prison

5/2/2008 - North Carolina Releases Levon Jones After 14 On Death Row

4/28/2008 - Texas Frees James Lee Woodard After 27 Years

4/20/2008 - Alton Logan Freed After 26 Years

4/16/2008 - Dallas County Releases 16th Prisoner Since 2001

4/15/2008 - Michigan Releases Nathaniel Hatchett After 12 Years

4/2/2008 - North Carolina Releases Glen Edward Chapman From Death Row

2/15/2008 - Louisiana Releases Levon Brooks

2/15/2008 - Mississippi Exonerates Former Death Row Prisoner Kennedy Brewer

2/14/2008 - New York Woman Exonerated in Daughter's Death

1/30/2008 - CWC client Marcus Lyons Seeks Pardon Based on Innocence From Illinois Govenor

1/29/2008 - Indiana Clears and Frees David Scott After 25 Years in Prison

1/23/2008 - Split 7th Circuit Finds No Remedy For "Tragedy of Epic Proportions" in Michael Evans case

1/22/2008 - Colorado Sets Tim Masters Free

1/21/2008 - Lawyer's Disclosure Leads to Communtation of Virginia Death Sentence

1/18/2008 - Lawyer-Client Privilege Blocked Evidence of Innocence In Illinois Case

1/17/2008 - CWC Client Johnnie Lee Savory Seeks DNA Testing from IL Governor

1/16/2008 - Watch CWC Client Alan Beaman's Case Argued Before the Illinois Supreme Court

1/15/2008 - Illinois Supreme Court Hears Beaman Appeal

1/13/2008 - Louisiana Releases Rickey Johnson after 26 Years

1/09/2008 - Chicago Approves Torture Settlement

1/08/2008 - Herb Whitlock Freed After 21 Years

1/05/2008 - Herb Whitlock's Conviction Overturned by Illinois Appellate Court

1/05/2008 - Dallas County Frees 15th Innocent Prisoner since 2001

1/02/2008 - New York Prosecutor Drops Charges In Martin Tankleff Case

12/24/2007 - Illinois Supreme Court to Hear Beaman Appeal

12/21/2007 - Federal Jury Awards $15.5 million to Kevin Fox and his wife

 

Rep Mary Flowers

12/17/2007

Illinois Rep. Mary Flowers has introduced a bill to make it easier for the wrongfully convicted to receive compensation

11/28/2007

Center client files lawsuit seeking damages for wrongful incarceration

11/21/07

Founding member of CWC's advisory board dies