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  • Man wrongly accused of looting sues city
    Donald Franks says he was falsely arrested for looting after Sandy hit and jailed for nine days.
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  • Two wrongfully convicted people set free
    Eric Glisson and Cathy Watkins, who spent 17 years in prison wrongfully convicted for murder, are finally free.
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  • Delay in releasing wrongly convicted inmates
    Two people that were wrongly convicted of murder are still being held in prison after a delay in getting them ankle bracelets.
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  • Video: Martin Sheen aids NY inmate's wrongful conviction bid
    Jeff Pegues has more on Martin Sheen's bid to help Jon-Adrian Velazquez with his 1999 murder conviction.
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  • Man says mug shot mix-up ruining reputation
    A man who used to live in New York says the NYPD has ruined his reputation.
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  • Charges dropped against man thanks to cell phone
    Lanell Dowling was 25-years-old when he was told he was facing 50 years in prison.
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  • Wrongly convicted man ordered released
    A man in prison for 5 years and facing many more because of a DA blunder is now one-step closer to getting out.
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  • Man freed after Eyewitness News Investigation
    A man from Brooklyn imprisoned because of a District Attorney blunder is now free.
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  • Wrongly convicted man ordered released
    A man in prison for 5 years and facing many more because of a DA blunder is now one-step closer to getting out.
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  • Wrongly charged teen sues city, NYPD
    The NYPD and New York City are both about to be sued by a college student in the Bronx who was wrongly charged and tried, he says, with breaking a car windshield with a rock.
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  • Charges dropped in Harlem police shooting
    A beaming 3-year-old Angel Junior is overjoyed that his 24-year-old dad, Angel Alvarez, is now a free man.
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  • Wrongfully convicted man sues city for $30M
    Fernando Bermudez's life story is a tale of injustice and inspiration. He was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 18 years in prison, sustained by his belief that the truth would prevail.
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  • Brooklyn man cleared after wrongly accused
    A Brooklyn man faced life in prison for the attempted murder of three NYPD officers.
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  • Three charged in scheme to frame innocent woman
    Investigators have arrested three people accused in an elaborate scheme to frame an innocent Far Rockaway woman.
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  • Investigation: Wrong man jailed
    A man from Harlem who was acquitted of a murder charge is furious at the District Attorney for pursing the trial.
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  • Man cleared after woman says rape claim was lie
    A man who spent four years in prison for a rape he didn't commit is finally cleared.
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