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Alex Murdaugh’s second murder trial will start next spring, judge rules

  • Jun 29

Murder conviction reversed over judge's reasonable doubt comments

  • Feb 20

Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate's conviction

  • Mar 11, 2025

Woman's conviction, sentence overturned for voting while on parole

  • Mar 29, 2024

Judge steps down from bench to apologize to man after charge dismissed

  • Nov 18, 2022

Board rejects George Floyd's pardon in arrest by disgraced HPD officer

  • Sep 16, 2022

Attorneys for families of victims in deadly HPD raid give update

  • Sep 13, 2022

After 5 years, inmate tied to former officer's case set to be released

  • Jul 22, 2022

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Murder conviction reversed over judge's reasonable doubt comments

  • Feb 20
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Fort Worth mother acquitted of felony voting in 2016 presidential election

  • Mar 29, 2024
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Judge embraces man who served 6 years for wrongful drug charge

  • Nov 18, 2022
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Attorneys for families of victims in deadly HPD raid give update

  • Sep 13, 2022
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Attorneys for families of victims in deadly HPD raid to give update

  • Sep 13, 2022
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After 5 years, inmate tied to former officer's case set to be released

  • Jul 22, 2022
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Lydell Grant step closer to leaving conviction behind

  • Dec 22, 2019
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Former trooper works to clear his name after winning appeal

  • Aug 16, 2017

Latest Stories

Inmate serving 25 years to be freed after prosecutors found HPD officer lied about conviction

Frederick Jeffrey's drug conviction in 2018 has been recommended to be overturned after prosecutors say former officer Gerald Goines lied in that case.

  • Jul 22, 2022
Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool

Murder conviction overturned for Justin Ross Harris, whose toddler died after 7 hours in hot car

Georgia's Supreme Court says much of the sexually related evidence the jury heard was "needlessly cumulative and prejudicial."

  • Jun 22, 2022
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NYC district attorney moves to clear names of 2 men in Malcom X's 1965 assassination

Nearly 57 years after the assassination of Malcolm X, a New York City district attorney is moving to clear two men convicted as accomplices.

  • Nov 17, 2021
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Malcolm X murder: DA to review convictions in human rights activist's Harlem slaying

The convictions of the three Nation of Islam members held responsible for the 1965 shooting death of Malcolm X will be reviewed.

  • Feb 8, 2020

DNA exonerates man who spent 25 years in prison for 1985 rape he did not commit

"I lost 25 years of my life because I insisted upon my innocence and rejected plea bargains," he said.

  • Jan 29, 2020