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Follow me After spending her entire adult life in prison for a murder she didn’t commit, a Las Vegas woman has finally been released. Kristin Blaise Lobato spent over 15 years behind bars in spite of evidence that she was over 150 miles away at the time the killing took
Follow me Last week, Demarlo Berry was released from a Nevada prison after serving 22 years for a murder he didn’t commit. He had been sentenced to life without parole in prison for a 1994 robbery at a Las Vegas Carl’s Jr. and the murder of Charles Burkes, the manager.
Follow me When he was just fourteen years old Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, was arrested on suspicion of having committed a murder. Initially, he continually insisted that he was innocent and other evidence also indicated that was the case. In spite of that, Denver detectives concealed the evidence that would exonerate
Follow me On Tuesday, a Detroit man who had been in prison since the age of fourteen, due to false testimony by a Detroit police deputy, had his conviction overturned. Davontae Sanford had received a sentence of 37 to 90 years in prison after being advised by the attorney that
Follow me As originally reported by Mother Jones, a report from the University of Michigan Law School has declared that 2015 set a new record for the highest amount of people that have been freed after it was proven that they were wrongfully convicted. As detailed in the report, there
Follow me The following post was submitted by Jedediah Mountz, via the CopBlock.org submissions page. Date of Incident: December 1, 2014 Officer Involved: Officer Pitts – Badge Number 1064 Department Involved: Virginia State Police Department Phone Number: (757) 253-4923 On Dec. 1st 2014, I was at night school after a
