A Baltimore man who was wrongfully convicted of robbery and spent nearly a decade behind bars will receive more than $550,000 under a new law.

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Welcome to Monday, the 47th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation and President Gerald Ford’s announcement that “our long national nightmare” was over. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Judge appears skeptical of new federal ...

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A Minnesota manslaughter case that has bounced back and forth from the trial court and two appellate courts has raised complex questions about the nature of exoneration – and when compensation is justly required.

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A group of Maryland delegates is urging the Board of Public Works to compensate five men who were wrongfully incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. In a letter to the board’s members — Gov. Larry Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot ...

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Attorneys for four exonerated men are asking the state Board of Public Works to pay the men $100,000 for each year they spent behind bars. Jerome Johnson, Lamar Johnson, Clarence Shipley and Hubert James Williams spent a combined 81 years incarcerated ...

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After serving nearly a quarter-century in prison, two Baltimore brothers were released Friday after an investigation by prosecutors and defense counsel concluded they were actually innocent of the conspiracy to commit murder for which they were convicted and sentenced to ...

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A man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit was released Tuesday after a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge vacated his conviction at the request of prosecutors. Clarence Shipley was convicted in 1992 of ...

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The testimony pouring out of the witness was grim, as disturbing as anything a criminal jury could be tasked to absorb. There in an Oregon courtroom in March 2017 was a daughter accusing her own father of sexual abuse.

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