The two columns with "Tags" in their labels allow you to sort and search cases by each of several additional characteristics. To see more detailed definitions for some of these terms, hover over their full names or click on the links:

The six columns on the far right of this page display separately the Contributing Factors that are listed together on the Summary Page. To save space, we use abbreviations. To see definitions of these factors, click on their full names:

Tags displays 15 variables
for all exonerations

• A: Arson Case
• CDC: Co-Defendant Confessed
• CIU: Conviction Integrity Unit
• CSH: Child Sex abuse Hysteria Case
• CV: Child Victim
• F: Female Exoneree
• FED: Federal Case
• H: Homicide
• IO: Innocence Organization
• JI: Jailhouse Informant
• M: Misdemeanor
• NC: No Crime Case
• P: Guilty Plea Case
• PH: Posthumous Exoneration
• SBS: Shaken Baby Syndrome Case

OM Tags displays 11 variables
for cases with Official Misconduct

• PR: Prosecutor Misconduct
• OF: Police Officer Misconduct
• FA: Forensic Analyst Misconduct
• CW: Child Welfare Worker Misconduct
• WH: Withheld Exculpatory Evidence
• NW: Misconduct That Is Not Withholding Evidence
• KP: Knowingly Permitting Perjury
• WT: Witness Tampering Or Misconduct Interrogating Co-defendant
• INT: Misconduct In Interrogation of Exoneree
• PJ: Perjury By Official
• PL: Prosecutor Lied In Court

• MWID: Mistaken Witness Identification
• FC: False Confession
• P/FA: Perjury or False Accusation
• F/MFE: False or Misleading Forensic Evidence
• OM: Official Misconduct
• ILD: Inadequate Legal Defense

Age: The exoneree's age on the date of the reported crime

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The Filter finds cases that contain any of the words you enter if you check Or, or all of them if you check And. It is not a search that works with quotation marks. It does work with truncation, but not with truncation symbols such as * and !. It scans the Detailed and Summary Views, and the narrative summaries.

Note: An asterisk (*) in the column to the right of the "DNA" column means that the case is not included in the Innocence Project's list of DNA exonerations because post-conviction DNA evidence was not central to establishing innocence, and other non-DNA factors were essential to the exoneration.