San Bernardino prosecutors attempted to convict Bill Richards for murder in four trials, once using bite-mark evidence. On Tuesday, he finally walked free after charges were dismissed.
Weeks after the Calif. Supreme Court vacated Bill Richards’s murder conviction, prosecutors in San Bernardino County indicated they will seek a fifth trial.
In a pending case before the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for a death row inmate are asking the justices to put a stop to an "epidemic" of prosecutorial misconduct.
The court overturned the 1997 conviction of Bill Richards for the murder of his wife, Pamela, finding that false forensic testimony had impacted the outcome of his trial.
Trials of Richard Glossip
Amid lingering doubts over Richard Glossip’s guilt, a new report slams the state’s bungled execution protocol while proposing new, improved ways to kill.
More than a dozen serious felony cases have unraveled as a result of systemic misconduct by police and prosecutors in Orange County, with charges dismissed or reduced or new trials granted.
California's Supreme Court must decide whether to vacate a murder conviction based on flawed and unscientific expert testimony.
A new rule in Texas that prohibits prisoners from maintaining a social media presence could infringe on the free speech and expression rights of ordinary citizens who maintain accounts on behalf of incarcerated loved ones.
Duane Buck killed two people in 1995 and pleaded guilty. But was it racial bias that put him on death row?
The Texas couple was jailed during a nationwide panic over “satanic ritual abuse” — a phenomenon long since debunked. Will the Austin district attorney finally let them clear their names?
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