A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago, making partial and belated amends for one of the greatest miscarriages of justice of Florida’s Jim Crow era.
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More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his convicted killers were exonerated Thursday after decades of doubt about who was responsible for the civil rights icon’s death.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced its Crime Laboratory Division laboratories have been recognized for voluntarily adopting national forensic standards published by the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC).
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics released findings from the 2020 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) that show a 22% decline in the total violent victimization rate from 2019 to 2020.
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A new study examined the impact changes to background checks and licensing policies has made on different types of violent crime in Massachusetts.
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New drone-mounted remote sensing technologies could complement conventional ground-based laser scanning in efficiently recreating crime scenes for forensic analysis.
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A vehicle located last week was linked to a missing persons cold case from 1998.
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A UCLA psychologist and undergraduate analyze Maurice Caldwell’s unjust incarceration and its profound long-term effects.
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Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre.
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The unit will now have three full time detectives—instead of one—and their work will expand to include both unsolved homicide and sexual assaults.
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