Wrongful Conviction

A man who was freed in 2015 after spending a quarter-century in prison for an infamous tourist killing will receive nearly $18 million in legal settlements from the city and state of New York, his attorneys confirmed Friday.

Grant Williams spent 23 years behind bars. At his trial, prosecutors tried to draw a connection between a hat left at the scene bearing the logo of Wu-Tang Clan though it was never tested for DNA.

New York City will pay $10.5 million dollars to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a man who spent 24 years in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned after a witness who had placed him at the crime scene recanted, city officials said Thursday. The conviction of Shawn Williams, who was freed in 2018, was the…

More than $1.4 million has been raised for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in a triple killing

A man on Long Island has been freed 30 years after he was wrongfully convicted of a murder.

Carlton Roman to be exonerated of a Queens murder after spending more than 30 years behind bars. Sarah Wallace reports.