A Missouri prosecutor is seeking to vacate the conviction of a man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for the 1998 death of his mother — a crime he and others insist he did not commit.

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Several Missouri nonprofit legal organizations have found themselves quickly responding to a new fundraising landscape altered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Memphis judge ruled on Monday that the daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have the right to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case. April Alley is the daughter of Sedley Alley, ...

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A Memphis judge ruled on Monday that the daughter of a man executed 13 years ago for murder does not have the right to seek DNA testing of evidence in the case. April Alley is the daughter of Sedley Alley, ...

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Dozens of legal ethics scholars and prosecutors have joined an effort get a new trial for a man serving a life sentence for murder in Missouri. A brief filed last week by 106 scholars, including law professors from Stanford and ...

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Dozens of legal ethics scholars and prosecutors have joined an effort get a new trial for a man serving a life sentence for murder in Missouri. A brief filed last week by 106 scholars, including law professors from Stanford and ...

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The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has formally dismissed murder charges against a man declared innocent and freed from prison last month. In August, a judge found clear and convincing evidence that Ricky Kidd was innocent of a 1996 double murder ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court has never squarely said how innocence claims from inmates sentenced to life in prison should be resolved. But trial judges keep inching closer to an answer. On Aug. 14, a DeKalb County circuit judge found clear ...

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Kansas City attorney Judy Heeter will be honored with the Sean O’Brien Freedom Award for her work with The Midwest Innocence Project, according to a news release.

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Robert E. Nelson left prison on Wednesday after a Jackson County circuit judge threw out his nearly 30-year-old conviction.

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Bill Beck didn’t set out to do pro bono work. When he got involved in negotiating a settlement agreement for Dennis Maher, a Massachusetts man freed after 19 years of wrongful imprisonment, he and his firm, Lathrop & Gage, fully ...

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