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Kenneth McPherson and Eric Simmons

Kenneth McPherson and Eric Simmons

In 1995, Kenneth McPherson (pictured with Baltimore's State Attorney) and Eric Simmons were sentenced to life in prison for a murder in Baltimore, Maryland. They were exonerated in 2019 with the help of the Baltimore conviction integrity unit after new witnesses confirmed they were not involved, and new evidence showed that the prosecution's only witness could not have seen the shooting from where she said she was.
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Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson

In 2010, Eric Anderson was sentenced to 14 to 22 years in prison for armed robbery in Detroit, Michigan. He was exonerated in 2019 after the real robber admitted he committed the crime. (Photo from left: Michigan Innocence Clinic attorney Megan Richardson, Eric Anderson, and student attorney Jennifer Holthaus)
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Recent Exonerations

Recent Exonerations

​We feature the latest exonerations here as we find them. Clockwise from top left: Huwe Burton, Catina Curley, Eric Blackmon, and David Bryant.
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Randy Liebich

Randy Liebich

In 2004, Randy Liebich was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend's two-year-old son in Willowbrook, Illinois. He was exonerated in 2019 by medical evidence that the boy's death was not the result of injuries inflicted while in Liebich’s care. Photo: Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune
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