The National
Registry of
Exonerations
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Exonerations by State
Newly Published Exonerations
At about 7 p.m. on February 24, 1988, 38-year-old Raphael Reyes, a clerk in a store on Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn, New York, was shot three times with a .25-caliber pistol and died. The autopsy…
On February 26, 2010, police arrested 61-year-old Stanley Reynolds Jr. at his home in Waterville, Vermont on a charge of sexually assaulting his 29-year-old deaf niece, S.T. Reynolds admitted he…
On March 16, 1992, at 11:50 p.m., two men robbed the Burger King on Richmond Avenue in Staten Island, New York. An employee of the store told officers with the New York Police Department that one man…
At about 1:30 a.m. on May 6, 2001, 54-year-old Earnest Jenkins drove his car to a Citgo gas station at the northwest corner of Damen Avenue and 55th Street in Chicago, Illinois. Michael Watson and…
In February 2019, a federal grand jury in Dallas, Texas indicted 63-year-old Ruel Hamilton, a real estate developer, on two counts of federal programs bribery relating to his dealings with two…
Just after 2 p.m. on January 14, 2021, as two students left Austin-East High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, the occupants of a Honda Pilot opened fire on them as the students drove out of a parking…
Antonio McDowell was among more than 40 men and women who were wrongly convicted based on misconduct by Chicago police detective Reynaldo Guevara and his partner, Ernest Halvorsen, and in some cases…
In the early morning hours of June 20, 2012, two security guards working at the Pandemonium Club on East Congress Street in Detroit, Michigan were shot in the back. Thirty-eight-year-old Marcel…
EVERY STORY COUNTS.
The Registry is a living archive of injustice. We collect, analyze, and publish comprehensive information on all known exonerations of criminal defendants in the United States.
We study the frequency and distribution of exonerations, and the causes, costs, and consequences of wrongful convictions. We make our data, research, and stories broadly accessible. Our goal is to be a resource for those who want to improve the criminal legal system and make it more accountable.
The Registry is a project of the Michigan State University College of Law, the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California—Irvine, and the University of Michigan Law School.
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In the Press
The Intercept"Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference." (2/6/2025)
Florida Politics"Gov. DeSantis signs 'clean hands' repeal to ease compensation for the wrongly imprisoned." (6/27/2025)