Editor's note: This article was originally published in The Texas Tribune here. A district judge who previously presided over a woman’s capital murder case recommended last week that the Texas ...
(CNN) — A Texas judge last week recommended the conviction and sentence of a mother on death row be overturned, finding prosecutors withheld key evidence that could have prevented her from being ...
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Melissa Lucio, a Texas woman whose execution was delayed in 2022 amid growing doubts she fatally beat her 2-year ...
Hours after Melissa Lucio’s 2-year-old daughter Mariah Alvarez fell asleep and never woke up from her nap in February 2007, an investigator with Child Protective Services interviewed some of her ...
A judge has ordered a review of all death penalty convictions from Alameda County following the discovery of prosecutors' notes that appear to show the illegal exclusion of Jewish and Black female ...
Such units are usually praised by wrongful conviction advocates, but Cincinnati attorneys say Hamilton County's is a ...
A man convicted on a questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome will remain behind bars after his post-conviction relief petition was denied by a Nashville judge. The ruling, issued Thursday ...
Three female judges were among the 4-3 ruling to reverse the conviction that was a cornerstone of the #MeToo movement; Judge Madeline Singas' dissenting opinion called the decision naive, saying ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Former Shelby County judge Melissa Boyd is back in jail. Online records show her booked into the Shelby County jail Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge of harassment.
New York’s highest court overturned a conviction on Thursday that tested how #MeToo cases could be tried. By Jodi Kantor Jodi Kantor has been reporting on Harvey Weinstein since 2017, when she ...
Russell Maze will remain in prison, where he has spent the past 25 years after a jury convicted him of abusing and ultimately killing his infant son, Alex. On Thursday, Judge Steve Dozier issued ...