“Thirty years ago maybe we were quicker to approve a charge than we are today,” Alvarez told reporters afterward. During her 20-minute speech, Alvarez expressed dismay at being compared to the “Gestapo” during the legal showdown with David Protess, the...

Lambros has zealously represented Wrice for nine years, believing wholeheartedly in his true innocence. Now the defining moment of his case has finally arrived. Freezing a muscular youth in his tracks, Wrice p

But the Supreme Court said “the state advances no other argument” why Wrice shouldn’t get the evidentiary hearing he was seeking. “This is a big step toward justice for Stanley Wrice and for the other men who were tortured by Jon Burge and his men,”...

"Okay, I know how bad it sounds, but they all really do look alike to me..." Was the bunny racially insensitive? Did his comment invoke the cliché that all blacks look alike, or worse, that all black criminal suspects are indistinguishable? Apparently,...

Hollywood relishes tales of villains, victims and heroes, so it is not surprising that movies about miscarriages of justice have long been a staple of the film industry. Like vintage Westerns, there are plenty of black-hatted bad guys (cops,...

Ask Lake County, IL prosecutor Michael Mermel who raped and murdered 11-year-old Holly Staker in 1992, and he'll insist that Juan Rivera broke into the home where Holly was babysitting and committed the crime. Rivera confessed, the head of criminal...