Pursuing compensation is a two-step process that begins with a wrongful imprisonment determination in a court of common pleas. The individual must then file a civil claim for monetary damages in the ...

On Nov. 13, 1980, the body of Patricia Jeschke was found in the bedroom of her apartment on the east side of St. Joseph, Missouri. Ms. Jeschke was a secretary at the St. Joseph Public Library, and her ...

Exonerees who have been granted a pardon by the Governor or a certificate of innocence by the Circuit Court are eligible for the following compensation: $85,350 for those who served up to five years ...

In order to be eligible to receive compensation for wrongful incarceration a person must: (1) Have been convicted by the state of one or more felony offenses, all of which the person was innocent, and ...

(April 13, 2026 — Grand Junction, CO) Today, the 21st Judicial District Attorney’s Office dismissed the double murder charges against James “Jimmy” Genrich’s related to a series of pipe bombings that ...

On May 24, 2023, Tyrone Day was exonerated by DNA testing of a sexual assault conviction in Dallas, Texas. He had spent more than 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. At about 2 a.m. on ...

Timothy Brian Cole died in a Texas prison in 1999 while serving a 25-year sentence for a rape he didn’t commit. Nearly a decade later, DNA evidence from the crime posthumously exonerated Mr. Cole and ...

Kirstin Blaise Lobato was just 18 years old when she was charged with the 2001 murder of Duran Bailey, a homeless man in Las Vegas. She was tried twice for the crime and always maintained her ...

“I've played characters that have been in prison, and in jail. I've worked in jailed. But just think if you were. Whatever work we can do to find a way for innocent people to be released, find a way ...

At about noon on November 29, 1988, a 74-year-old woman was taking her daily walk along an abandoned railroad bed in Rochester, NY, when she was shot twice in the head with a BB gun, struck with a ...

After serving 27 years in Texas prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Charles Chatman was proven innocent by DNA testing and freed in early 2008. He was 20 years old when he was arrested in 1981 and 47 ...

On May 9, 2023, nearly 26 years after he was arrested, Norberto Peets was exonerated of attempted murder and other charges arising from a 1996 shooting in Bronx County, New York. Mr. Peets had been ...