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Author: BY NORIMITSU ONISHI - Publish Date: November 21, 2021 at 01:15AM The victim was a socialite. A message in her blood accused the gardener. But a grammatical error raised questions of class and language — and whether he was being framed.

Author: BY SHAILA DEWAN - Publish Date: October 5, 2021 at 11:36PM The 2004 conviction, which was brought by a former Houston narcotics officer now at the center of a policing scandal, will be set aside, if the governor approves.

Author: BY ANDREW HIGGINS - Publish Date: September 27, 2021 at 01:09AM Abu Bakker Qassim, a Uyghur from China, was dumped in Albania after the U.S. concluded he was not a terrorist, as Chinese authorities had maintained. The only country that wants him is China.

Author: BY JESUS JIMÉNEZ - Publish Date: September 5, 2021 at 04:59AM Charges were dropped in 2019 against Mr. Flowers, who spent 23 years in prison after he was accused of killing four people at a Mississippi furniture store.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: July 2, 2021 at 01:24AM Readers discuss the overturning of the actor's conviction. Also: Abortion before Roe.

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: June 2, 2021 at 09:45AM Brian Buglio, the police chief in West Hazleton, Pa., agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement, according to court records.

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: June 1, 2021 at 08:32AM A bill that passed the General Assembly with bipartisan support on Sunday would make Illinois the first state to prohibit officers from lying when interrogating those under 18.

Author: BY KURT STREETER - Publish Date: May 17, 2021 at 11:01AM Moore, the 2014 W.N.B.A. M.V.P., is reveling in married life and continuing a fight for criminal justice reform alongside Jonathan Irons, whom she married after helping him win his release from prison after 23 years.

Author: BY JAN RANSOM - Publish Date: February 15, 2021 at 03:00PM Huwe Burton was wrongly convicted because of deceptive interrogation techniques. How many more cases were “solved” the same way?

Author: BY CHARLES M. BLOW - Publish Date: November 26, 2020 at 07:00AM This holiday, he says he’s thankful. Are you?

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: August 27, 2020 at 07:27AM Prosecutors in Hillsborough County, Fla., said Robert DuBoise, 55, had been wrongfully convicted. On Wednesday, they moved to free him after he spent 37 years behind bars.

Author: BY MICHAEL LEVENSON - Publish Date: March 19, 2020 at 07:55AM Ms. Fairstein, a former prosecutor, claims the series about the Central Park jogger case portrayed her as a “racist, unethical villain.” Netflix said the lawsuit was “without merit.”

Author: BY MARIEL PADILLA - Publish Date: December 22, 2019 at 07:02AM Mr. Dassey is serving a life sentence for murder in a case that was made famous in a Netflix documentary series.

Author: BY MARIEL PADILLA - Publish Date: September 29, 2019 at 07:14AM A city commissioner in Florida accused the deputy of making a false arrest in 2015.

Author: AISHA HARRIS - Publish Date: May 30, 2019 at 07:00AM The men, whose story will be brought to life in Netflix’s “When They See Us,” discuss the mini-series with their onscreen counterparts.

Author: HEATHER MURPHY - Publish Date: April 20, 2019 at 07:00AM These three men spent decades in prison as a result of statistical exaggerations. They were among 150 men and women released from prison after their wrongful convictions were overturned in 2018.

Author: JACK HEALY - Publish Date: April 1, 2019 at 07:00AM Six innocent people who were sent to prison for a murder sued and won. Now the county that wrongfully convicted them has to raise taxes to pay them.

Author: SEAN PICCOLI - Publish Date: April 1, 2019 at 07:00AM Louis Scarcella was once a rock-star detective in Brooklyn’s most crime-ridden precincts. In court, he faced men he put in prison who were later exonerated.

Author: JACEY FORTIN - Publish Date: March 8, 2019 at 07:00AM In a reversal, Maryland’s highest court said there would be no retrial for the man whose murder conviction was dissected in the hit podcast “Serial.”