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How an NBC News journalist helped free six innocent men from prison

How an NBC News journalist helped free six innocent men from prison

My baptism into the hidden epidemic of wrongful convictions came more than two decades ago when a Bronx detective confided that he knew two men languishing in prison for the 1990 murder of a Manhattan nightclub bouncer were innocent. How could he be so sure? “Because I know who did it,” he said.  It was a conversation that changed my …

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Appeals court upholds $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict against Trump

Appeals court upholds  million E. Jean Carroll verdict against Trump

A federal appeals court has upheld writer E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million civil judgment against President-elect Donald Trump. A jury had awarded Carroll the sum in 2023 after finding Trump liable for sexual abusing her in the 1990s and then defaming her after she went public with her allegations. Trump has denied the allegations and appealed the verdict, charging it …

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