TRENTON, New Jersey — Police say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home.

Trenton police said Wednesday the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital.

Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at…

From Chicago Breaking News:

A former Chicago woman and her son have been charged after Kenosha police found the woman’s 38-year-old daughter–who has the intellectual capacity of a child–at the family home disfigured from neglect, covered in her own excrement and chained to a weight bench.

Sally M. Adams, 56, and her son, Ernest Claiborne, 34, were arrested in their home in the 1300 block of 69th Street in Kenosha on Saturday.…

A nine-year-old boy was stabbed and killed in the early hours of Saturday morning in Morningside Heights after what his family says was a fight over a video game.

According to the boy’s mother, Anthony was visiting his uncle and while the uncle was asleep, the boy was stabbed.

The boy’s uncle told reporters the boy knocked on his bedroom door at 3:30 a.m. saying he had been stabbed, and then collapsed.

The little boy, Anthony Maldonado of Palisades Park, NJ, was found by police in a…

From Fox8.com:

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Steve McClairin,36, is accused of placing his seven-year-old daughter in the dryer, shutting the door, and turning it on.

McClairin was arraigned Wednesday morning on a handful of charges, including two counts of endangering children, felonious assault, kidnapping and domestic violence.…

But given teens' developmental need for a clear connection between their behavior and its consequences -- not to mention the importance of addressing the needs of victims -- it's important for their cases to be processed as quickly as possible.

Yet the time it took juvenile courts to process cases went up by 10% between 1995 and 2004, even though the number of cases…

Facebook Posting Allegedly Led To House Robbery

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Federal Legislation

A landmark moment in the Innocence Movement occurred when the federal Justice For All Act of 2004 was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 30, 2004.

The Justice For All Act includes the Innocence Protection Act, legislation that, among other things, grants any federal inmate the right to petition a federal court for DNA testing to support a…

Innocence and The Law

The Innocence Project represents clients seeking post-conviction DNA testing to prove their innocence. We also consult on a number of cases on appeal in which the defendant is represented by primary counsel and we provide information and background on DNA testing litigation. To learn how to submit a case to us for review, please visit the Contact Us page.



We work on cases in all 50 states of the U.S. We advise and consult with…

Judge rejects Blount's claim

Forty people stood in Winton Terrace on Thursday night, huddled under umbrellas over the spot where Lawrence McElroy was gunned down exactly a week earlier.

Just hours later, another man would lie dead in the parking lot of an apartment lot…

Former Ga. Lawmaker, Husband Found Dead