Photographer Taryn Simon has published “The Innocents,” a collection of photographs of people freed on DNA evidence after having been wrongly convicted and incarcerated. With the photos are ...

Scheck spoke to a packed house on Monday evening at a program put on by the Progressive Forum. He looked exactly like Al Pacino (though oddly enough, Peter Gallagher has already played him in a movie) ...

The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer Twenty years later, Marvin Anderson remembers the phone call like it was yesterday. He was behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer ...

Twenty-two years ago, a young man named Marion Coakley was convicted of robbing and brutally raping a mother of five. But with eight witnesses and a priest corroborating Coakley’s alibi, his South ...

Kathleen Rice is making good on a promise of her failed campaign for state Attorney General by appointing a panel of outside legal experts to re-investigate the 1988 conviction of Jesse Friedman, who ...

In a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, two men were finally relieved of a decades-old burden they should never have carried to begin with - their wrongful convictions in the murder of Malcolm X.

Some, like Marcia Clark and Mark Fuhrman, gained fame in other arenas. Others lived quieter lives. By Anna Betts If DNA exonerates Sedley Alley, it could hasten an end to capital punishment. By Emily ...

Attorneys Barry Scheck, left, and Peter Neufeld, right, co-founders of The Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Photo: David Handschuh Twenty years later, Marvin Anderson ...