Center on Wrongful Convictions

NEWS AND EVENTS

08/11/2011 - Legal Community urges Illinois Supreme Court to hold hearings for 15 Burge victims (Chicago Tribune)

08/10/2011 - Editorial: Stop dragging out police abuse suits (Chicago Sun-Times)

08/05/2011 - CWC Client Jacques Rivera seeks new trial in 1988 conviction (Chicago Tribune)

07/27/2011 - Insurance Company refuses to pay for Lake County cops' mistakes in Hobbs case (Chicago Tribune)

07/14/2011 - Feds announce investigation of Jon Burge's underlings (Chicago Tribune)

06/26/2011 - Death announced of Randall Dale Adams, Texas Death Row exoneree and subject of acclaimed documentary The Thin Blue Line

06/21/2011 - Another Lake County, IL false confession revealed by DNA evidence (Chicago Tribune)

06/20/2011 - Editorial: Don't ignore DNA that might tell the truth (Chicago Sun-Times)

06/17/2011 - Man Linked to 2005 Zion, IL Double Murder Charged in 2009 Cold Case (Chicago Tribune)

06/07/2011 - Medill Innocence Project Posts Investigation Findings in Donald Watkins Case

05/25/2011 - DNA Linked to Deceased Offender Exonerates 4 Men (Chicago Tribune)

04/15/2011 - Judge Refuses to Release Three Excluded from 1991 Crime Scene DNA (Chicago Tribune)

04/09/2011 - Death Row Exoneree Responds to Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Case Against His Prosecutors (New York Times)

03/21/2011 - New York Fights Compensation for Wrongly Convicted Man (New York Times)

03/10/2011 - Illinois Abolishes the Death Penalty (Chicago Tribune)

02/14/2011 - Illinois Governor Urged to Abolish Death Penalty (pdf) (Chicago Daily Observer)

02/06/2011 - New Questions Facing Shaken-Baby Convictions (New York Times)

01/22/2011 - Ex-Prosecutors and Judges Urge Quinn to End Death Penalty (pdf)

01/11/2011 - ILLINOIS SENATE VOTES TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

01/06/2011 - ILLINOIS HOUSE VOTES TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

01/06/2011 - ILLINOIS DEATH PENALTY TOO FLAWED TO FIX

12/10/2010 - MAN LINKED TO ZION MURDERS SENTENCED IN VIRGINIA

12/09/2010 - ERIC ZORN ON THE MARCUS LYONS CASE

12/06/2010 - U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DROPS DNA WAIVER POLICY

11/14/2010 - ILLINOIS DEATH PENALTY STILL BROKEN & COSTLY

11/07/2010 - PROSECUTORS' JOB IS JUSTICE, NOT VICTORY

11/06/2010 - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IN NORFOLK 4 CONVICTED OF LYING TO FEDS

11/03/2010 - FIRST-EVER WOMEN & INNOCENCE CONFERENCE

11/01/2010 - JON BURGE TO BE SENTENCED

10/27/2010 - TEXAS DROPS ALL CHARGES AGAINST FORMER DEATH ROW PRISONER

10/12/2010 - Another Lake County False Confession?

10/08/2010 - CWC Client Maurice Patterson Exonerated

9/26/2010 - Spotlight on Lake County False Confessions

8/09/2010 - Hobbs Case Proves Flaws of Interrogation

8/04/2010 - After More Than Five Years In Jail, Lake county Drops Charges and Releases Jerry Hobbs

7/28/2010 - Harris County, Texas Exonerates Michael Allen Green After 27 years in Prison

7/12/2010 - CWC Client Juan Rivera Appeals Murder Conviction

7/11/2010 - Why Do Innocent People Falsely Confess?

6/15/2010 - Arizona Governor Ignores Clemency Recommendation For Innocent Man

5/24/2010 - Milwaukee County Will Review 2,100 Cases Cold Cases For Possible DNA Testing

5/17/2010 - Supreme Court Bars Juvenile Life Term For Crimes Not Involving Murder

5/10/2010 - Cortez Brown Pleads Guilty

5/05/2010 - Ohio Frees Raymond Towler After 30 Years

3/12/2010 - Leonard Goodman On Un-American Activities

3/5/2010 - Victims of Police Torture Ask Illinois Appellate Court To Hear Their Case

1/15/2010 - Burge Victim Michael Tillman Freed After 24 Years

12/17/2009 - DNA Frees Florida Man Imprisoned For 35 Years

12/15/2009 - Arguments Against the Death Penalty

12/01/2009 - CWC Client Alan Beaman Files for Certificate of Innocence

11/19/2009 - Iillinois Supreme Court Grants Salvador Ortiz a New Trial

11/13/2009 - Gubernatorial Candidate Jim Ryan apologizes for the wrongful convictions of Cruz and Hernandez

11/04/2009 - Man Exonerated 8 Months After "Scent Line Up" Sends Him to Jail

10/27/2009 - Dean Cage's Fight For Justice

10/19/2009 - Medill Innocence Project Subpoenaed by Cook County State's Attorney

10/19/2009 - Texas Governor Perry Continues to Deny Science in Willingham Execution

10/12/2009 - Ousted Fire Investigator in Texas case says Governor Pressured Commission

8/14/2009 - U.S. District Court Judge Dissents for California Detah Row Prisoner Kevin Cooper

8/08/2009 - Virginia Governor Grants Conditional Pardons to 3 of Norfolk 4

8/06/2009 - CWC Board Member John Levi Nominated To Post By President Obama

7/10/2009 - Death Row Prisoner Herman Lindsey Freed By Fla Supreme Court

7/01/2009 - Two Texas Men Exculded From Crime Scene By DNA Are Freed After 17 Years

6/26/2009 - U.S. Supreme Court Rules Lab Analysts Must Testify

5/27/2009 - Dallas County Releases 20TH Man Exonerated By DNA

5/18/2009 - Prosecutors Block DNA Testing for Prisoners

5/14/2009 - James A. Fry: I Put Away An Innocent Man

4/09/2009 - Nathson Fields is 19th man Exonerated from Illinois' Death Row

3/09/2009 - Randy Steidl Urges NM Lawmakers to Abolish Death Penalty

3/01/2009 - Anthony Harris: A 12-Year-old Confesses to Murder

3/01/2009 - U.S. Supreme Court Hears DNA Testing Case

2/05/2009 - 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

1/06/2009 - Ex-Illinois Death Row Prisoner Madison Hobley One Step Closer to $6.5 Million Settlement

1/04/2009 - 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

10/07/2008 - Gary Gauger's New Book: In Spite of the System

9/05/2008 - Charges Dropped Against Alton Logan

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

7/04/2008 - Illinois Governor Grants 19 Pardons

7/01/2008 - 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

7/01/2008 - 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

5/02/2008 - 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

4/02/2008 - 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

12/17/2007 - Illinois Rep. Mary Flowers has introduced a bill to make it easier for the wrongfully convicted to receive compensation

11/21/2007 - Founding member of CWC's advisory board dies