Illinois lawmakers are considering reinstating voting rights for people currently serving a felony sentence.
Author: Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY
‘I feel free’: Chicago teen framed for 1985 murder becomes 3,000th person exonerated in US
Reynaldo Munoz served 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Now his case is the 3,000th known exoneration in the U.S.
At ‘ground zero for modern civil rights,’ will vote on future of police reverberate across US?
Minneapolis, home of George Floyd, may vote to dramatically change police on Nov. 2. How will this change reverberate across the US?
Chauvin expected to file appeal of guilty verdict. But the issues to be raised are up for debate.
Now that fired police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all three counts against him, he can still file an appeal. But the odds are not good, considering some 90% of appeals are denied across the United States.
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