Rodney Gupton was convicted of shooting at a car based on the eye witness testimony of a 17 year old girl. Years later, the 17 year old witness, now a...

A tragic house fire where three children died, coupled with bad arson science led to the wrongful conviction of their mother. She has spent more than ...

Horace Roberts was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1999. New DNA testing suggests the true perpetrator is still at large. Horace remains incarcerate...

On paper, California's compensation law is great. Practically speaking, however, each one of these cases is a battle, and very few exonerees get compe...

Brian Banks was one of the best high school football plays in the country when he was falsely accused of rape by one of his classmates. Years later, a...

The governor of every state has the power to grant clemency and free any inmate within the state prison system. In 2013, 3 lawyers from the California...

Alex Simpson is the Associate Director of the California Innocence Project. In this episode, he discusses the legislative successes that they have ach...

Each year, the California Innocence Project receives thousands of requests for assistance, and we rely on interns to go through these cases and look f...

When a witness walks into a courtroom and points at a defendant and says, "I'm 100% sure that that's the person who committed the crime," that's very ...

California Innocence Project client Kimberly Long was released from prison a year ago after spending more than seven years in prison for a crime she d...