Nikki continues to fight for her freedom. While she waits, she still has basic needs we can help meet: keeping her website online to share her story, and supporting her commissary so she can afford essentials. Will you stand with Nikki? #innocence#wrongfulconviction
33 yrs ago @freenikkizinger was arrested for the murder of her mother. Despite DNA testing that refutes her involvement & a unanimous vote to commute her sentence, Nikki remains behind bars. Please support her journey for justice. #WrongfulConvictionDaylinktr.ee/freenikkizinger
A judge dismissed a murder charge against @GaInnocence client Joey Watkins, ending a decades-long legal fight to exonerate him. Joey, who spent more than 20 years in prison, "cried like a baby" upon being told that his charges were dropped. cbsn.ws/46o8SFl
Toforest Johnson has spent more than two decades on death row for a crime he's always said he did not commit. In this @lavaforgood podcast “Earwitness” hosted by @bshelburne, learn more about his story and the fight to clear his name. open.spotify.com/show/2VOlRH4fK…
This isn't because there are fewer #wrongfulconvictions in Arkansas. Rather, this number speaks to the roadblocks the state sets up for doing #innocence work.
Together, the 770+ exonerated former clients of #InnocenceNetwork organizations spent over 12,700 years wrongfully incarcerated. The longest of those wrongful convictions was 47 years. This should shake us to our core and move us to action. #WrongfulConvictionDay
EXONEREE NEEDS HELP:
Glynn Simmons spent FORTY-EIGHT+ years in prison -- and 2+ years on Oklahoma's death row -- for a crime he did not commit. At 70, he is trying to begin life on the outside -- and he is battling cancer, too. If you have the means, please consider supporting him: GoFundMe.com/f/glynnrsimmons
Here is the biggest part of Adnan Syed's news conference. We now know definitively that Kevin Urick committed a Brady violation by failing to disclose that an alternate suspect threatened to kill Hae, leading to 23 years of wrongful conviction⬇️
Jeff Titus has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the cold case detectives who withheld evidence that an alternate suspect was identified by two eyewitnesses: woodtv.com/news/target-8/…
Adnan Syed said there are two new pieces of information he believes can help him. He wants an investigation by Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown. cbsloc.al/450dhNm
Private prison communications companies are known for charging often exorbitant amounts for phone calls, even within the same area code. A growing movement is abolishing the practice.
prisonjournalismproject.org/2023/09/17/pho…
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