Showing posts with label Illinois Innocence Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois Innocence Project. Show all posts
Monday, February 22, 2021

UIS Innocence Project gets pardon for client from Pritzker

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The Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield announced that one of its clients, who was wrongfully convicted t...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Amanda Knox On Access To Justice Ahead Of Headlining Innocence Project Event

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The Illinois Innocence Project will host Amanda Knox at a virtual fundraiser for the organization on Thursday evening in an event billed a...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Celebrate Exonerees

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The Illinois Innocence Project , based at University of Illinois Springfield , is celebrating that four of its clients who began 2020 in pri...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Illinois Innocence Project at UIS educates public on International Wrongful Conviction Day

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Oct. 2 is International Wrongful Conviction Day, and the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois Springfield is raising aw...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Coal Valley man has murder conviction vacated thanks in part to the Illinois Innocence Project

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A Coal Valley man’s 2008 murder conviction was vacated Tuesday, thanks in part to the work of the Illinois Innocence Project. Newly discover...
Thursday, February 20, 2020

Innocence Project’s Hanlon named to governor’s task force

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John Hanlon , the executive director of the University of Illinois Springfield ’s Illinois Innocence Project, was one of 15 members named to...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Indiana exoneree to speak at UIS

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An Indiana woman who was convicted in 1996 of murder and arson for allegedly setting a fire that killed her three-year-old, but later had he...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Illinois Innocence Project case gets clemency hearing

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A Chicago woman whose 1992 double murder conviction was taken up by the Springfield-based Illinois Innocence Project will have a clemency h...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

As UIS marks wrongful convictions, exoneree says the fight continues

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On Wednesday morning, students involved with the Illinois Innocence Project planted 2,492 small flags on the University of Illinois Springfi...
Monday, June 3, 2019

Joye Williams Endows Scholarship

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In January 2019, barely seven months after completing her master’s degree in Legal Studies, Joye Williams created an endowed fund at the Un...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Man wrongfully convicted of attempted murder exonerated after death

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A wrongfully convicted Illinois man will be exonerated decades after he died in prison. The Illinois Innocence Project at the University ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Wrongful Conviction Day

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Tuesday was Wrongful Conviction Day. One of the places taking note was the quad on the University of Illinois Springfield campus. “Someti...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Making a Murderer attorney speaks at Innocence Project Fundraiser

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The University of Illinois Springfield held its 11th annual Defenders of the Innocent fundraiser. The Illinois Innocence Project thanked...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Free after 22 years: Man visits UIS to thank those who exonerated him

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A 61-year-old man who spent more than 22 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit said he doesn’t see any reason to be angry. “I’m ove...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Man acquitted in retrial for murder, arson in mother-in-law’s 1995 death

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A former Naperville man who spent 22 years in prison for the 1995 death of his mother-in-law was found not guilty in a retrial Wednesday. ...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Illinois Innocence Project Wins Grant For DNA Testing

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The Illinois Innocence Project , based at the University of Illinois Springfield , has won a $641,000 grant for DNA testing intended to help...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Illinois Innocence Project honors Wrongful Conviction Day

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Thousands of flags could be seen on the University of Illinois Springfield campus Monday, one for each solved wrongful conviction case. ...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Chicago-area man free on bail, gets new trial in arson case

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William Amor has walked out of a suburban Chicago prison after a judge vacated his 1997 conviction on charges of arson and murder in his mot...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Illinois Innocence Project honored by Decatur NAACP

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Charles Palmer has thanked members of the Illinois Innocence Project hundreds of times for coming up with the DNA evidence that exonerated ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Innocence Project director to speak in Decatur on Wednesday

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John J. Hanlon , executive director and legal director of the Illinois Innocence Project , at the University of Illinois Springfield , is sl...