Center on Wrongful Convictions

NEWS AND EVENTS


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