#exoneration

#exoneration

Maxwell Hairston expressed confidence in his innocence regarding a civil lawsuit alleging sexual assault, citing thorough investigations by the police and the University of Kentucky that exonerated him.

Boles lost three decades of his life for a crime he had nothing to do with, said his lawyer Jane Pucher, who works with the Innocence Project.

"The case against Kenneth Clair was based primarily on circumstantial evidence, which has now been scrutinized and determined to be insufficient, especially in light of new DNA findings."

In a shocking turn of events, the man convicted of killing Oregon Correction Director Michael Francke has been exonerated, prompting state legislative leaders to call for an FBI investigation into the unsolved murder.