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David Bryant spent forty years in prison for the 1975 rape and murder of eight-year-old Karen Smith.

On February 8, 1990, a gunman attempted to rob a diamond courier in Brooklyn, New York. However, the robbery attempt was botched and the unharmed courier was able to flee the armed suspect.

Debra Jean Milke was found guilty of murder in the 1989 killing of her four-year-old son.

In her nine years working as a chemist at a Massachusetts Department of Public Health lab, Annie Dookhan tested drugs in some 34,000 cases.

In 1987, in Central Texas, Christine Morton was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Prosecutors in Williamson County built a case against Christine’s husband, Michael, then 32 years-old, based largely upon circumstantial evidence.

Is it possible to convict a man of murder based on questionable eyewitness identifications and invalid forensic science? Tragically as one New York man found out, it is.

Brian Baran was just twenty years old when he entered prison for crimes he did not commit. He spent the next twenty-two years of his life trying to prove his innocence.

In 1988, Anthony Klann, 19, was brutally murdered in Cleveland, Ohio. One of the men accused of his murder, Joe D’Ambrosio, spent twenty-one years on Ohio’s death row before his conviction was thrown out thanks to the efforts of a Catholic priest who befriended him in prison and believed in his innocence.

Bennie Starks, now 52-years-old, spent twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Starks was a third of the way through his sixty-year sentence, when DNA testing excluded him as the perpetrator of the crime.

Texas death row inmate Larry Swearingen has been requesting DNA testing on evidence in the 1998 murder of a 19-year-old college student, a student who was his friend and a student he was convicted of murdering.