Challenging Wrongful Convictions act

Social Media Toolkit: New Yorkers Challenging Wrongful Convictions

Social Media Toolkit: New Yorkers Challenging Wrongful Convictions

Wrongly convicted New Yorkers spend an average of 11.5 years in prison before they walk free — two years longer than the national average. For their families, that's two more years spent apart.

10.02.26 by Innocence Staff

Yusef Salaam introducing the criminal justice package in New York on Dec. 14, 2021 in Central Park. (Image: Elijah Craig/Innocence Project)

Wrongly convicted New Yorkers spend an average of 11.5 years in prison before they walk free — two years longer than the national average. For their families, that's two more years spent apart.

10.02.26 by Innocence Staff

NY Governor Kathy Hochul Should Sign the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act Into Law

NY Governor Kathy Hochul Should Sign the Challenging Wrongful Convictions Act Into Law

New York is just one of just a handful of states that won’t allow people convicted of crimes to obtain post-conviction relief with non-DNA evidence of innocence.

Opinion 10.02.23 by Barry Scheck

(Image: Elijah Craig II/Innocence Project)

New York is just one of just a handful of states that won’t allow people convicted of crimes to obtain post-conviction relief with non-DNA evidence of innocence.

Opinion 10.02.23 by Barry Scheck

Exonerated Five Extends Support to Steven Lopez, Sixth Person Exonerated in Jogger Case

Exonerated Five Extends Support to Steven Lopez, Sixth Person Exonerated in Jogger Case

On behalf of members of the Exonerated 5 and the Innocence Project, we extend our deepest support to Steven Lopez.

07.26.22 by Innocence Staff

Steven Lopez arrives in court for a hearing, Monday, July 25, 2022, in New York. Lopez, a co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned Monday. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

On behalf of members of the Exonerated 5 and the Innocence Project, we extend our deepest support to Steven Lopez.

07.26.22 by Innocence Staff

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