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Jimmie "Chris" Duncan was released from death row after 27 years after Judge Alvin Sharp ruled that "clear and convincing ...

An Innocence Project attorney has a new book out that he hopes will bring more awareness to the kind of “junk science” that leads to wrongful convictions. M. Chris Fabricant, director of Strategic ...

While they remain a singularly popular pop-culture genre, the police and court procedurals that draw the eyes and attention of television viewers on a daily basis have, unfortunately, given most ...

Ketanji Brown Jackson is on the path to becoming the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court. But there’s another less-discussed first about Judge Jackson’s background: She’ll be the ...

If a scientist were to testify that he saw a person commit a crime because he went to the scene in the Way Back Machine with Peabody and his pet boy Sherman, everyone would know it was untrue.

Hypnosis played a critical role in the real-life case depicted in Max’s Love & Death. But was it good science? Here’s what the experts say. So (spoiler alert) how in the world did the jury find her ...

Content warning: This story contains a description of sexual assault. (InvestigateTV) - Judy Carnes remembers making the call like it was yesterday. She was trying to reach her mother on May 22, 1980, ...