#Wrongful Conviction

Articles (8)

• 🇬🇧 When an off-duty police officer was murdered in Chicago, Alex Villa was arrested and sent to prison for ten years. The problem? He almost certainly didn’t do it — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>The evidence against him and two fellow gang members didn’t stack up. But the police and prosecutors pressed on. How did the US justice system get it so wrong?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardia...

  Related: #Criminal Justice
• 🇺🇸 Texas Woman Found Innocent After 22 Years in Prison Faces Deportation Threat — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Carmen Mejia was cleared of murder this week in connection with the death of a baby in her care, who was scalded by hot water in 2003 in Austin, Texas. She is still in jail on an immigration hold.

  Related: #Immigration
• 🇬🇧 Andrew Malkinson accuser ‘wasn’t too sure it was the right man’, court told — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Malkinson spent 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in rape case for which another man is now on trial</p><p>A woman who alleged she was raped by Andrew Malkinson admitted to police 22...

  Related: #Legal Uncertainty
• 🇬🇧 Family of murder victim appeal for information after wrongful conviction — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The family of a woman who was murdered almost 40 years ago have appealed for people to come forward with information after DNA evidence showed the man believed to be her killer was wrongfully convicte...

  Related: #Justice Appeal
• 🇺🇸 New York City Paid $117 Million to Settle Misconduct Lawsuits in 2025 — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  The largest settlements, more than $24 million combined, went to two men wrongfully convicted of killing a French tourist in Midtown in 1987, an analysis by the Legal Aid Society found.

  Related: #Legal Settlements, #Police Misconduct, #Criminal Justice
• 🇺🇸 The Yogurt Shop Murders — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  The brutal murders of four teenage girls has haunted Austin, Texas, for 30 years. Could new information lead to a killer? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty has reported on the case from the begi...

  Related: #Cold Cases, #Justice System, #DNA Technology
• 🇺🇸 Bullet casing at yogurt shop links serial killer to the infamous murders — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  "48 Hours" can exclusively report there has been a huge break in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in a Texas yogurt shop.

  Related: #Criminal Justice, #DNA Evidence, #Cold Case Investigation
• 🇺🇸 Men wrongfully accused of yogurt shop murders seek formal exoneration — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  One of the four men who was initially convicted was sent to death row in the killing of four teenagers in a crime that haunted Austin for decades.

  Related: #Justice, #Legal System