It's among the proposals from the Iowa Attorney General's Office ahead of the Iowa legislative session that starts later this ...

The Seattle Police Department is asking the Office of the Inspector General to review policies and procedures after the department discovered the SPD evidence warehouse staff mistakenly destroyed 107 ...

Data from Virginia's post-conviction DNA project support the innocence of 33 persons convicted of sexual assaults from 1973 to 1987 concludes an Urban Institute study. Findings released today indicate ...

A criminalist testifying Monday in the Marvin Ray Markle Jr. murder case said she was able to extract DNA from fingernail clippings from the victim’s left hand, then told the prosecutor it revealed “a ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — An Ypsilanti man convicted in one of several sexual assaults documented from 2015 and 2018 has taken a plea on another sexual assault linked to him through DNA. Lewis Junior ...

"The best way to clear my name was to get myself out." Fifty-two-year-old Michael Robinson spent 26 years in prison for a Queens murder before getting out on parole in March of 2019. His battle to ...

A man who served nearly 21 years in prison for a rape and kidnapping he didn't commit has been exonerated after new DNA evidence proved his innocence — but officials say he may not be freed yet, ...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court approves DNA testing for Willie James Hardy, serving life for conviction for murder of his ex-girlfriend Deborah Will in June 1993. The 4-3 decision overturns precedent and ...

A Mt. Holly man who spent nearly a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against law enforcement officials and DNA analysts he claims fabricated ...

Kurtulus Kalican, who is serving a 64-year-prison sentence for sneaking into his ex-wife's New London home in 2003 and killing her boyfriend, has asked a judge to order DNA testing on bullet fragments ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A convicted rapist wants the Nebraska Supreme Court to allow him to gather DNA samples from two sisters who were raped in 1975 because new tests might exonerate him. But ...

DENVER (Reuters) - A man whose murder conviction was based on gruesome sketches he made as a 15-year-old boy was freed from prison on Tuesday after DNA evidence from the body was found to match the ...