wrongful conviction

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

12:32pm March 26, 2025

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.

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Human Interest

Tiny homes in Alamance County will help exonerees get back into society

7:00am October 28, 2024

by David Ford

An Alamance couple has donated a portion of their small farm to house exonerees. It's a collaboration with the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence with the goal of helping those who have spent years in prison and were wrongfully convicted transition back into society.

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Crime

Kalvin Michael Smith last seen a week before his body was found, according to autopsy report

10:44am January 22, 2024

by Paul Garber

Newly released reports provide more details on the September death of Kalvin Michael Smith, who spent almost 20 years in prison. He was at the center of a racially divisive case that was one of the region’s most prominent allegations of wrongful conviction.

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Courts

In $25M settlement, North Carolina city `deeply remorseful' for man's wrongful conviction, prison

2:42pm January 10, 2024

by Associated Press

Lawyers for a man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years say he's reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina. The settlement was announced Tuesday by attorneys for Ronnie Long and the city of Concord. I

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

1:07am January 10, 2024

by The Associated Press

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.

In 'Beyond Innocence,' journalist and writer Phoebe Zerwick revisits the story of Darryl Hunt

2:09pm March 08, 2022

In 2003, journalist Phoebe Zerwick wrote an eight

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Herbert Alford, right, and his lawyer Jamie White, left, say Hertz "viciously disregarded" multiple court orders to produce a receipt that could have spared the 47-year-old nearly five years in prison.

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

6:46pm March 11, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

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.

35 Years After Wrongful Conviction, Darryl Hunt’s Legacy Of Hope Remains

11:57am June 12, 2020

by David Ford

With thousands of young demonstrators marching in Winston-Salem to protest the police killing of George Floyd, an older generation in Winston-Salem is looking back.

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Mark and Mia Schand, wearing T-shirts from the innocence organization Centurion Ministries in 2015, just want to move forward.

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Jury Awards $27 Million To Massachusetts Man Wrongfully Convicted Of Murder

5:00am October 02, 2019

by Karen Brown

Mark Schand spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He considers the vindication more important than the money.

At age 17, Fred Clay was sentenced to life in prison without parole. His conviction was thrown out nearly four decades later.

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Wrongfully Convicted And Jailed 38 Years, Fred Clay Gets $1 Million Payout

6:36pm January 30, 2019

by Chris Burrell

"It is a great day for justice and it is a great day for Mr. Clay," said attorney Jeffrey Harris. The payout is the highest amount allowed under a revised state law on regarding wrongful conviction.