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News Articles: wrongful conviction

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. In 2015, Italy's highest court acquitted her of murder.

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Why Amanda Knox returns to Italy — and how she talks with her daughter about injustice

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her exoneration, she reached out to the man who prosecuted her case. Knox's new memoir is Free.

March 26, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
Michael Woolfolk poses for a photo at the state capitol, Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

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Compensating people who are wrongfully convicted is a hard sell in some states

Several states are considering moves to change how they compensate people incarcerated after wrongful convictions. Georgia is one of 12 states with no compensation law.

March 18, 2025
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Leonard Cure

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Georgia deputy denies allegation of excessive force in killing of exonerated Black man

Leonard Cure was shot and killed during an October 2023 traffic stop along Interstate 95 in Camden County.

May 29, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Ronnie Long stands in a hallway at the Albemarle Correctional Institution in Albemarle, east of Charlotte, N.C., in 2007.

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North Carolina man settles for millions after wrongful conviction, 44 years in prison

The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace Long, also included a public apology from the city of Concord for its role in his imprisonment.

January 10, 2024
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Leonard Cure

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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump responds to police video showing killing of exonerated Georgia man

Leonard Cure was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop.

October 20, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
In this photo provided by the Innocence Project of Florida, Leonard Allen Cure poses from the floor of the Florida legislature in Tallahassee, Fla., in April 2023, on the day his compensation bill was passed. Cure, who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction, was shot and killed Monday, Oct. 156, by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said.

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Georgia deputy shoots, kills Black man who spent 16 years in prison on wrongful conviction

A Black man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction has been fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop. Leonard Cure was shot and killed by a Camden County deputy during a traffic stop Monday.

October 17, 2023
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Man walking out of prison.

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The Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act is one step away from Kemp's desk. Will it pass?

The Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act, filed as House Bill 364 in the 2023 legislative session, is one final Senate approval away from being signed into Georgia law by Gov. Brian Kemp under Senate Bill 35.

March 29, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton

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Eight Miles, A Time-Stamped Receipt And An Overturned Conviction Lead To A Lawsuit

Herbert Alford was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder and spent nearly five years in prison. Now, he's suing Hertz Corp. for failing to turn over a receipt that corroborated his alibi.

March 12, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo

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