ST. PETERSBURG - Alan Crotzer knows what it is like to be innocent of a crime even when a jury decides otherwise. Convicted of kidnapping, robbery and rape when he was 19, Crotzer grew old in prison and thought he was going to die there. Full Article at Tampa Bay Online

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A recent spate of exonerations in New York state has put renewed focus on the plight of the wrongly convicted, with advocates saying it is not as easy as it should be to get an unjust verdict reversed. Full Article at Reuters

After North Carolina was forced to release a series of wrongly convicted people from prisons early in the decade, leaders established a pioneering agency to swiftly assess claims of innocence. Full Article at Fresno Bee

Connecticut is looking into hundreds of old criminal cases to determine if any prisoners were wrongly convicted of rape, murder or manslaughter as part of an ambitious initiative under way around the country. Full Article at The Seattle Times

DALLAS, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A lawsuit charges that a lawyer with the Innocence Project of Texas is getting a cut from compensation paid to the wrongly convicted after their release. Full Article at United Press International

Saturday, December 12, 2009 Story last updated at 12/12/2009 - 12:21 am Jeff Blackburn, a director of the Innocence Project of Texas, and Kevin Glasheen, who has represented about a dozen wrongly convicted Texans, will donate $100,000 to create an... Full Article at Lubbock Avalanche-Journal