For my last post I highlighted an interesting case where four men were wrongfully convicted of a double murder in a case that is now known as the Ford Heights Four Case. This case takes place in a suburb of Chicago in the Spring of 1978. A young couple was taken from a gas station […]

In this blog I want to highlight an article by the Innocence Project discussing reform and their success in making change. This article was written in July 2019 and shows how far the effort to end wrongful convictions has come. If you are not familiar with the Innocence Project, I strongly suggest looking into their […]

In the 1980s, corruption and misconduct plagued the South Side police stations of Chicago. On multiple occasions, the officers would use extreme and illegal methods to gather false confessions to convict innocent people. In this blog I’m going to be talking about the case of LeRoy Orange, a man who was tortured and abused by […]

This story starts on September 2, 1986, when there was a dispute that ended in a shooting outside of a Springfield night club. The whole situation starts with Charles and David Stokes trying to sell drugs to Michael Hosten and Anthony Cooke. During this interaction, a group of guys came up to them, interested in […]

I’ve decided to continue writing my passion blogs about wrongful convictions. This is such an important topic and issue that I feel the need to keep building off my previous posts and hopefully continuing to educate people and build awareness. There are countless stories of wrongful convictions that exemplify certain issues within the Criminal Justice […]

For this blog, I plan on doing something a little different. Typically, in my blog posts, I focus on a specific case of a person who was wrongfully convicted by the Criminal Justice System. In this blog I’m going to discuss one organization that helps exonerate these wrongfully convicted people, the Innocence Project. The Innocence […]

On August 10th, 1984, Deborah Sykes was raped and murdered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  They found her in a brutal fashion, as she was naked, with countless stab markings. After the committing of the crime a man came forward saying he saw an African American male with Deborah Sykes. This man’s description matched Hunt, and […]

The case of Kirk Bloodsworth is an extremely crucial case for the future of wrongful conviction cases. Bloodsworth was on death row after being convicted of murder in 1985. Bloodsworth case was full of mistakes and problems that led to his conviction. Eventually in 1993 he was exonerated. This case is such a big deal […]

Imagine losing your seven children to murder by poison. Imagine the pain and sadness you feel. But wait, you’re arrested and seen as a possible suspect. There’s no way they can form a case, they have no evidence. Wrong, not only are your seven children dead, but now you’re convicted and sentenced to death. This […]