Ransom Watkins was only 17 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. “I knew I was there for something I did not do, and so I knew I would be coming home someday,” Ransom said of his experience in prison. Although conditions in

Last week, MAIP client Anthony Hall was fully exonerated when the Baltimore City State’s Attorney dropped murder charges against him, following a March decision by the Baltimore City Circuit Court to grant Anthony’s Petition for a Writ of Actual Innocence and vacate his 1992 murder conviction. For Anthony, who has

Yesterday, MAIP client Kenneth Bond-El was released from Jessup Correctional Institution after spending almost three decades in prison for a murder he did not commit. 

Dante Ricardo Boyd—“Rick” to his family and friends—was a 23-year-old father of four with most of his life still in front of him when he was convicted in DC Superior Court in May 1998 for the gang-related murder of 12-year-old Darryl Hall. Rick’s involvement in gang life was practically nonexistent,

May 11, 2022 (Washington, DC) Today, MAIP client Rodney Brown was released from D.C. Jail after spending more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. He is the 42nd innocent person we’ve helped free. With the assistance of our partners at the Second Look Project, Maggie

On April 19, 2022, the Virginia Court of Appeals unanimously granted a writ of actual innocence to Michael Haas, who has spent more than 23 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Michael, who has been on parole since 2017, is now fully exonerated thanks to the

This afternoon, a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge vacated the conviction of Paul Madison, who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Later today, Madison will leave prison as a free man, thanks to the work of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project (MAIP),

“Going beyond this analysis as proscribed in Md. Crim. Pro. Sec. 8-301, the State asserts that, given the information and evidence known now, the State’s confidence in Morris’s conviction has evaporated.” State’s Supplemental Response to Petitioner’s Writ of Actual Innocence Petition1 This afternoon, a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge vacated