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Thank you for visiting our site. We are in the process of migrating to our new platform! The Registry is "frozen in time" at 3,659 exonerations, on February 14th, 2025​. Our team is still hard at work researching and recording every exoneration we can find, we simply cannot publish them online until we migrate to our new website -​ coming SOON! ​
Martel Lee

Martel Lee

In 2024, 16-year-old Martel Lee was convicted of sexually assaulting a classmate at school in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was exonerated after a new witness said the complainant was never in the same classroom with Lee as the complainant claimed at trial. Lee pictured with​ his mother, Jenifer Jones (Photo: Kevin Mathewson/Kenosha County Eye)
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Eron Shelman

Eron Shelman

Eron Shelman was convicted in 1992 of a murder in Detroit, Michigan. He was exonerated in 2025, after uncovering new evidence that impeached the credibility of the state's main witness. (Photo: Proving Innocence)​
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Charlotte Pleytez

Charlotte Pleytez

In 2009, Charlotte Pleytez and Lombardo Palacios were convicted of first-degree murder in Los Angeles, California. They were exonerated in 2024 after a reinvestigation identified the real perpetrators and concluded that the three eyewitnesses had mistakenly identified Pleytez and Palacios. (​Pleytez, second from right, with family members. Photo: Los Angeles Times)
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Lombardo Palacios

Lombardo Palacios

In 2009, Charlotte Pleytez and Lombardo Palacios were convicted of first-degree murder in Los Angeles, California. They were exonerated in 2024 after a reinvestigation identified the real perpetrators and concluded that the three eyewitnesses had mistakenly identified Pleytez and Palacios.(Photo: Sigry Ortiz, Palacios' sister, pictured with Palacios​)
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