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Shateek Lanier

Shateek Lanier

​Shateek Lanier was sentenced in 2013 to 20 years in prison for attempted murder in Troy, New York. He was exonerated in 2021 after an eyewitness admitted she never saw the shooting and another witness said Lanier was elsewhere at the time of the crime. (Photo: Troy Record)
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Lamar Barnes

Lamar Barnes

​Lamar Barnes was sentenced to life in prison in 2003 for a murder in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was pardoned by Gov. Ralph Northam in 2022, after his attorneys showed that prosecutors had manipulated the testimony of a key witness and failed to disclose other evidence that pointed to Barnes's innocence. (Photo: Innocence Project University of Virginia School of Law)
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Eric Weakley

Eric Weakley

​Eric Weakley falsely confessed and then pled guilty in 2001 to second-degree murder in the death of an elderly woman in Culpeper County, Virginia. He was pardoned by Gov. Ralph Northam in 2022, several years after the exoneration of Weakley's co-defendant, Michael Hash, based on evidence that Weakley confessed under pressure from law enforcement to a crime he didn't commit. (Photo: Innocence Project University of Virginia School of Law)
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Charlie Dunn

Charlie Dunn

In 1988, Charlie Dunn and his girlfriend, Joyce Watkins, were sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of Watkins's 4-year-old great niece in Nashville, Tennessee. Dunn died in 2015 and did not live to see his and Watkins's exonerations in 2022, which were based on new forensic evidence that the girl's injuries occurred before Watkins and Dunn began caring for her.
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Joyce Watkins

Joyce Watkins

In 1988, Joyce Watkins, shown here with Jason Gichner of the Tennessee Innocence Project, and Charlie Dunn were sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of Watkins's 4-year-old great niece in Nashville, Tennessee. They were exonerated (Dunn posthumously) in 2022 based on new forensic evidence that the girl's injuries occurred before Watkins and Dunn began caring for her.
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