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Willie Stokes

Willie Stokes

Willie Stokes was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1984 for a murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After more than 37 years in prison, he was exonerated in January 2022 based on police and prosecutorial misconduct. (Photo: Matt Rourke/Associated Press)
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Rodolfo Taylor

Rodolfo Taylor

In 1985, Rodolfo Taylor was sentenced to 18 to 36 years in prison for the robberies of three gas station on Long Island, New York. He was exonerated in 2022 based on the prosecution's failure to disclose that the eyewitnesses initially identified someone else or said they could not identify the robber. (Photo: James Carbone/Newsday)
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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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