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In March 1976, American Leonard Mack was convicted of sexual assault and holding two female victims at gunpoint. In September 2023, Mack’s wrongful conviction was finally overturned by a New York judge on his 72nd birthday with the help of the Innocence Project, an organisation that uses DNA evidence to…

An Oklahoma man who was freed after being imprisoned for decades on a murder conviction says there are more cases like his

Vietnam war veteran Leonard Mack had to live with the longest-standing wrongful conviction in US history

State relied on faulty medical evidence in 2005 case, advocates argue

Appeal judge ruled against expert who testified only James Genrich’s tools could have worked on the explosive devices

Yusef Salaam was one of five defendants found guilty in the 1989 Central Park rape case that had the likes of Donald Trump calling for the death penalty. Years after being exonerated for the heinous crime, Salaam will likely become the next councilman for a New York City neighborhood

The ruling is likely the first by a state supreme court to undercut the popular forensic technique.