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Melvin Quinney, Jr.

Melvin Quinney, Jr.

In 1991, Melvin Quinney Jr., of San Antonio, Texas, was convicted of taking indecent liberties with his 8-year-old son. He was exonerated in 2023 after the son recanted and said other adults pressured him to falsely accuse Quinney. (Melvin Quinney, center, with his children. Photo: Innocence Project of Texas)​
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Alphonso Clark

Alphonso Clark

Alphonso Clark was convicted in 2005 of a murder in Inkster, Michigan. He was exonerated in 2023 after the state's key witness recanted his identification of Clark as the gunman.​
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Clifton Caldwell

Clifton Caldwell

Clifton Caldwell was convicted of aggravated rape in 2002. He was exonerated in 2023, after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that prosecutors had failed to turn over evidence undermining the credibility of a jailhouse informant who testified that Caldwell had confessed. ​
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Patrick Brown

Patrick Brown

Patrick Brown, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was convicted of rape in 1994. He was exonerated in 2023 after a reinvestigation showed that the victim had been saying for years that Brown was not the man who raped her.(Photo: CNN)​
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