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At about 3:30 a.m. on April 23, 1984, two men were shot to death inside the Chandelier Club on Reistertown Road in northwest Baltimore, Maryland. Michael Stewart was 47 years old. Joseph Johnson,…
At around midnight on the evening of August 31, 1990, a 20-year-old woman, E.B.R, returned home from a musical rehearsal in the city of Carolina, Puerto Rico. It was dark because the power was out.…
On the evening of Thursday, October 4, 2018, 20-year-old Zachary Lally was arrested at the Oak Pointe Country Club in Brighton, Michigan. Lally, an employee of the club who had spent the afternoon…
Richard Anthony was among more than 20 men who were wrongly convicted in Chicago, Illinois based on misconduct by Chicago police detectives assigned to the Area 1 homicide bureau. These detectives…
On January 12, 2010, at 7:30 in the morning, Alicia Hernandez, a 22-year-old domestic worker, was walking to work when she was attacked on Four Corners Road on Staten Island, New York.Hernandez…
At around 2:45 a.m. on November 20, 1993, 24-year-old Lawrence Jones, a recent graduate of the University of Maine who was hoping to continue his studies at The Johns Hopkins University, was shot on…
Robert Cardona and five other men — his brother, Gregorio Cardona, Lowell Higgins-Bey, Fernando Gomez, Michael McCastle, and Harry Rodriguez — were among more than 50 men and women who were…
Just before 1:45 a.m. on August 10, 1997, a man broke into a home in the Dinkytown neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A man and a woman were asleep in the bedroom, and they awoke to find the…
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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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Reports
In the Press
Injustice WatchFake Science, Faulty Methods, Misleading testimony (8/14/2025)
AFRO NewsMaryland public defender boosts exoneration efforts with 2nd innocence clinic at Maryland Carey School of Law (8/1/25)
WBURAdvocates renew push to raise compensation cap for those wrongfully convicted (8/1/25)