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LaVone Hill

LaVone Hill

In 2002, Lavone Hill was sentenced to life in prison for a double murder in Detroit, Michigan. He was exonerated in 2024 based on evidence that another man committed the crime, new witnesses who said Hill was not the gunman, and the prosecution’s failure to disclose that the lead detective had been suspended at the time he testified. Hill pictured with ​Jenna Cobb, co-director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic, upon release. (Photo: Dustin Johnston, University of Michigan Law)
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Duane Williams

Duane Williams

In 2013, Duane Williams was convicted of murder and arson after two people died in a house fire in Detroit, Michigan. He was exonerated in 2024, after Williams's appellate attorneys found that the arson investigator’s report had been altered to cover up evidence the fire might have started accidentally.​ (Photo courtesy of Ann Garant/Cooley Law School)​.
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Ronald Taylor

Ronald Taylor

In 1995, Ronald Taylor and George Gould were sentenced to 80 years in prison for the murder of a bodega owner in New Haven, Connecticut. Gould was exonerated in February 2024 based on recantations by two witnesses and evidence pointing to the victim's son as the real killer. In October 2024, Taylor, who had died in 2011, was posthumously exonerated. (​Photo: New Haven Register)
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Jon-Adrian Velazquez

Jon-Adrian Velazquez

In 2000, Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez was convicted of second-degree murder and robbery in New York City. He was exonerated in 2024, after several witnesses had recanted their testimony and DNA testing excluded him from genetic material left at the crime scene. ​Velazquez holding his mother's hand after being cleared. (Photo: New York Post)
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Keith Roberts

Keith Roberts

In 1987, Keith Roberts was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for a murder in Brooklyn, New York. He was exonerated in 2024 by evidence showing that the state’s star witness falsely testified he saw Roberts commit the crime.(Photo: Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)​
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