“It’s a lesson in resilience and tenacity," Glynn Simmons said at a press conference after he was exonerated. He added, “Don’t let nobody tell you that it (exoneration) can’t happen, because it really can."
Big Island police were called to the scene of a Christmas Eve 1991 hit-and-run but, half an hour later and some five miles away, tourist Dana Ireland was discovered bleeding to death in what became one of Hawaii's most high-profile murder cases.
It's been more than 30 years after Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson and Yusef Salaam were wrongfully convicted for the assault and rape of a Central Park jogger.
Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam reached a settlement with both the city and state of New York following their exoneration in the 1965 murder of Black civil rights pioneer Malcolm X.
The discovery of a rape kit for victim Barbara Grams, which had been presumed destroyed decades earlier, provided conclusive evidence that Robert DuBoise wasn't guilty of the 19-year-old's 1983 rape and murder.
