the exonerated five. Can you share with us who you were in April 1989 and what happened to you.
would exonerate you. I had a case I worked on for 15 years in Wisconsin on an Innocence Project before I could get this guy out.
economically viable but even Exon Mobile gave Craig ventner who has a similar
was to get people exonerated, the end.
I was the 152nd exoneree that had got off death row.
killer was uh exonerated by the
He was completely exonerated.
to get exonerated of that blame. And like many other things in life and work, the underlying issue, the underlying contribution that you did or didn't make, or mistake you did or
was owned by the precursor of eson Exon it was owned by ESO and they had banned libyans from working there I mean from
I've instilled in the exonerees that you're family.
And with Richard's story or the exonerated five, it's very, very easy to feel for them, but for people
There have been 351 post-conviction DNA exonerations in 37 states, 20 people sentenced to death since 1989.
And we're not even counting mass exonerations, and there have been plenty of those.
But because the pardons and exonerations and other legal interventions, that they're now
Yes, so I was exonerated in 2012, and I started Miles of Freedom.
How many men and women need to be exonerated before we as a country decide that enough is enough?
are our clients, the exonerated.
The whole time her husband worked to have her exonerated.
Now, he was eventually exonerated.
It's up to the Pakistani justice system to exonerate or to declare culpability.
beautiful on the bottom. It says exonerated five. And this is actually a piece of a piece of art that I created
And it's because of DNA that we have the growing number of exonerees in the state of California and around the country.
And if that then comes back negative, then that athlete is exonerated because running a second test, even if it's no more accurate than the first,
and wound up committing to him using his own money, got him exonerated within three years.
Richard's a much nicer person than I am, and our exonerees are the nicest people you could ever meet.
And I especially encourage the guys that have recently gotten out to know that these more mature exonerees are
I'm woefully insufficient with anything that's going to be constructively helpful, whereas exoneree to exoneree, I mean,
It pains me when I think about these stories or when I listen to them or I meet people who have been exonerated, it's painful, quite honestly.
When jurors deliberated in the afternoon, they were more likely to exonerate Garner and convict Garcia on the same set of facts.
by states, every way you can imagine-- is that nobody is arguing with these 351 exonerations.
There is a website that I want to urge you to look at called the National Registry of Exonerations, which our colleagues
First of all, let me tell you that I cannot exonerate you, no matter what you do.
All of those 15 years, he had at least one exoneration, or exclusion of DNA evidence from the crime scene.
The good math took over and she was released, she was exonerated, and found innocent later on.
So this is another project that we worked on in Touchpress-- a book about the whole DNA exoneration enterprise that's now-- and has been for some time
And similarly, you might push so hard to be exonerated of a minor mistake or oversight--.
So I met Yussef in the spring of 1999 at Hunter College, and at that time he had not yet been exonerated. Andi
When you look at wrongful incarcerations, especially Dallas, I mean, we had like 60 something people that's been exonerated,
We're working on 25 cases, but the work is overwhelming, and it takes years and years and years to get somebody exonerated.
His name was Craig Watkins, and he was freeing a lot of people through DNA testing, allowing DNA testing to go forward and get people exonerated.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, and that's another phenomena in wrongful convictions, is not only do we lose our exonerees once they
Now, if you look them up, all of the names that I just named have been released, and they've been exonerated.
It's chaotic. Generally, as a rule, families expect the exonorees, OK,
Now, Philby, of course, had been suspected in the '50s, and indeed left SIS, but he'd been exonerated.
convicted. Viable process-- Now, in 1989, we had the first DNA exoneration in the United States.
at all. But I think it was difficult-- and you see this time and time again on DNA exoneration cases.
And we do have one individual, Obie Anthony, who also works for Death Penalty Focus as a justice advocate, who was serving life without possibility of parole and he was exonerated.
Of people on, you know, two people that were on Death Row, that actually through a long and I'm sure arduous process, that they'll tell you about, were exonerated.