EXI

The Exoneration Initiative fights to free innocent people who have been wrongfully convicted in New York, focusing on cases which lack DNA evidence.

[Legal Defense Fund @NAACP_LDF]

We applaud @NYCCouncil for passing the #HowManyStopsAct Intros 586 & 538. 👏🏽

These bills will bring critical and urgent transparency to the NYPD’s daily activities in Black, Brown, and low-income communities. Tell @NYCMayor to sign these bills into law!
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[Innocence Project @innocence]

URGENT: Missouri could schedule an execution date for Marcellus Williams as early as Jan. 3, 2024. His life is at risk for a crime that DNA evidence proves someone else committed. Add your name to petition to stop this injustice before it’s too late: https://t.co/lBRYudbejD

[EXI @exiNY]

Another powerful example of the hard work necessary to achieve an exoneration. We applaud all of those who made this happen for Delroy Livingston.

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[Legal Defense Fund @NAACP_LDF]

HAPPENING NOW: We are at City Hall with @changethenypd to demand that @NYCCouncil pass the #HowManyStopsAct

Stop and Frisk is on the rise, and New Yorkers deserve to know the full extent of police interactions in their communities. We demand NYPD transparency!

[EXI @exiNY]

Congratulations to Glynn Simmons for being exonerated with a declaration of actual innocence!
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[EXI @exiNY]

"But it is rare for a judge to detail the failures in a case and to apologize the way Justice Johnson did to Mr. Walters, said his lawyers, Glenn Garber and Rebecca Freedman of the Exoneration Initiative."

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[EXI @exiNY]

Yesterday, our client, Earl Walters, was exonerated 30 years after his wrongful conviction!

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[EXI @exiNY]

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[EXI @exiNY]

Wrongful convictions are unjust. Neither individuals nor society can afford them. It has to stop!
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[EXI @exiNY]

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[EXI @exiNY]

Like men, women are victims of wrongful conviction. In addition to the hardships of incarceration that men endure, women may be forced to prematurely separate from their children or even give birth in jail. EXI acknowledges these mothers yesterday, today, and every day. 💘

[EXI @exiNY]

The more sunlight a criminal investigation sees, the less likely it is to be plagued by misconduct, misjudgement, and mistake.
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[Craig Trocino (craigtrocino on threads) @CraigTrocino]

Great work. Congratulations IPF and Mr Ates.

[Nazgol Ghandnoosh @NazgolG]

As a result of former MD Gov. Glendening's "life means life" policy, no one was released from a parole-eligible life sentence there for over two decades. He now encourages the legislature and @GovLarryHogan to fix this broken process. https://t.co/dKo6dQZT6x

[EXI @exiNY]

"At the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, prisoners have told their families that they have gathered snow into buckets so that they can flush dorm toilets." Read more: https://t.co/rZcibx9zet

[IDInnocenceProject @IdahoInnocence]

“I knew the day was coming. I just didn't know how or when but I knew this day would get here." -Kenneth Nixon

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[EXI @exiNY]

The Bronx District Attorney's Conviction Integrity Unit is looking into detectives’ tactics in 31 homicide cases that relied on confessions. The criminal justice system fails innocent people when police and prosecutors rely on false confessions: https://t.co/tiXfjLI6xW

[EXI @exiNY]

A recent study by @exonerationlist found Black defendants are more likely than White defendants to be subject to police and prosecutorial misconduct. At EXI, 80% of our exonerees are black men.

[EXI @exiNY]

February is #BlackHistoryMonth and an important time to acknowledge that wrongful convictions reflect and exaggerate the racism in American society. Black people are only 13% of the American population but they represent 49% of total exonerations: https://t.co/iCx4z6Rb0n

[ABA Death Penalty Representation Project @DeathPenaltyRep]

BREAKING: A bill to abolish the #deathpenalty in #Virginia has passed its House of Delegates, all but ensuring the state - the former seat of the confederacy and the second-most prolific death penalty state in the modern era - will completely abolish #capitalpunishment.