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Louis Wright

Louis Wright

In 1988, Louis Wright was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison for burglary and rape of an 11-year-old girl in Albion, Michigan. He was exonerated in 2023 by DNA testing as well as the disclosure for the first time of crime laboratory reports that excluded him from bootprint and fingerprint evidence at the scene of the crime. (Wright with his sister, Darlene Hall)​
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Jabar Walker

Jabar Walker

Jabar Walker was convicted in 1998 on two counts of murder in upper Manhattan, New York. He was exonerated in 2023, after a witness recanted and a re-examination of his case found that the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence. (Walker alonside Innocence Project Attorney Vanessa Potkin. ​Photo: The New York Times)
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Detroy Livingston

Detroy Livingston

In 1987, Detroy Livingston was convicted of a murder that took place nearly five years earlier in Brooklyn, New York. He was exonerated in 2023, after the victim's daughter asked the Kings County District Attorney's Office to re-investigate the case. ​(Photo: Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News)
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Justin Gonzalez

Justin Gonzalez

In 2018, Justin Gonzalez was sentenced to 90 years in prison for a murder in Woodland, California. He was granted a new trial on legal grounds and acquitted at a retrial after DNA testing contradicted the witnesses's claim that he held the victim in a bear hug while another man stabbed the victim. (​Gonzalez with his wife Morgan)
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