Jesse SchecknerDecember 15, 2022
9min0
‘Hopefully, this time is the right time. Hopefully, we can make some movement.’
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Jesse SchecknerDecember 15, 2022
Guest AuthorAugust 18, 2022
6min0
Unfortunately, the State Attorney’s Office, Sixth Judicial Circuit does not have a Conviction Integrity Unit.
A.G. GancarskiDecember 8, 2021
4min1062
The case of a Jacksonville man inspired the bill.
Jesse SchecknerAugust 4, 2021
9min2311
A DNA test in 2020 excluded him from committing the crime.
Jason DelgadoJune 9, 2020
3min561
The 76-year-old was arrested at 34 and not released until last year.
Renzo DowneyMarch 10, 2020
4min482
HB 7077 would make forensic tests more accessible to convicted felons.
Renzo DowneyFebruary 6, 2020
4min1097
The would strip the "clean hands" requirement.
Sarah MuellerJanuary 29, 2020
4min472
Minority Leader Gibson says she apologized to Williams for his years in prison.
Jim RosicaAugust 16, 2018
5min715
Incarceration isn’t supposed to be a birthright, but it’s as though it has become one for Alan Crotzer. The St. Petersburg native became a cause célèbre when, in January 2006, DNA evidence led to his exoneration of robbery and rape charges after 24 years in prison. Now, records show Crotzer — who had moved to Tallahassee after leaving prison […]
Associated PressApril 6, 2017
1min828
Florida could put into law police lineup guidelines that the state’s top law enforcement agency developed six years ago. The Senate voted unanimously for a bill that would require law enforcement agencies to use the lineup standards to avoid eyewitness mistakes that could lead to wrongful convictions. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement encouraged agencies […]