A wrongly convicted man freed by DNA evidence is suing his civil lawyer and an Innocence Project of Texas official, saying $650,000 in attorney fees is excessive. ...more

December 23, 2009

The organization that helped free James Bain from prison for a crime he didn't commit did not exist when he was sentenced to life 35 years ago, nor did the science that eventually freed him. ...more

December 18, 2009

James Bernard Bain, free of steel bars and having to stare at the outside world through chain link and concertina wire, stood outside the Polk County Courthouse on Thursday morning, wrapped in the warmth of freedom. ...more

December 18, 2009

Jamie Bernard Bain is a free man after 35 years in prison. The once-convicted rapist whose guilt was called into question by recent DNA testing was set free by a judge this morning in Polk County. ...more

December 17, 2009

If a judge sets him free today after 35 years in prison, the first thing Jamie Bernard Bain plans to do is pay his respects at his stepfather's grave. ...more

December 17, 2009

A man whom new evidence shows might have been wrongfully imprisoned for 35 years could become a free man in less than two days. ...more

December 16, 2009

A man whom new evidence shows might have been wrongfully imprisoned for 35 years could become a free man in less than 48 hours. ...more

December 15, 2009

Alan Crotzer knows what it is like to be innocent of a crime even when a jury decides otherwise. ...more

December 15, 2009

James Bernard Bain was 19 years old when he was convicted of kidnapping a Lake Wales boy, then raping him on a baseball diamond not far from the child's home. ...more

December 11, 2009

A first-of-its-kind study has found that forensic experts gave flawed testimony in the trials of 82 men wrongfully convicted of rape or murder in the 1980s. ...more

March 20, 2009