It Is Not an Easy Life

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Explore Brian Banks’s story Wrongly accused of rape as a teenager, imprisoned, and exonerated by the Innocence Project.
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If you say that someone has an easy life, you mean that they live comfortably without any problems or worries.

Part 1

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Part 2

Puzzling – Perplexing

Part 3

Social Conscience

Part 4

Deception is ethical

Part 5

No-nonsense

Part 6

Hiding in Plain Sight

1 Brian Banks went innocent to prison on his 18th birthday

Wrongfully Jailed For Rape As A Teen, He Now Helps Others Falsely Convicted | Megyn Kelly TODAY

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9 jan 2018
 
Accused of rape by a fellow student, Brian Banks accepted a plea deal and went to prison on his 18th birthday. Years later he was exonerated with the help of the California Innocence Project. He’s joined on Megyn Kelly TODAY by Project director Justin Brooks and former prosecutor Loni Coombs, with whom he now examines other potentially wrongful convictions on the series “Final Appeal.”
2 Daniel Villegas was just 16 when he was wrongfully convicted

Court Cam: Crowd Cheers for Wrongfully Convicted Man Found NOT Guilty (Season 1) | A&E

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 18 mrt 2020
Love Court Cam? Stay up to date on all of your favorite A&E shows at http://aetv.com/schedule.
 
After spending the majority of his life behind bars for a wrongful conviction, Daniel Villegas is found not guilty and the courtroom goes wild in this clip from Season 1, Episode 2 “Court Cam

Daniel Villegas’ Fight for Freedom | Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom


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11 apr 2021
 
Daniel Villegas was just 16 when he was wrongfully convicted of double murder and sentenced to life in prison. After being exonerated in 2018 with the help of an unexpected hero, Daniel is now sharing his story, from the intimidation tactics that resulted in his false confession to the retrial that set him free.

Daniel Villegas on Law&Crime Network with Reaction to his Not Guilty Verdict

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Daniel Villegas on Law&Crime Network with Reaction to his Not Guilty Verdict

Daniel Villegas Retrial Verdict


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Daniel Villegas Retrial Verdict

“You’ll never be the same,” Daniel Villegas opens up on life after 2018 trial

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4 dec 2021
 
“You’ll never be the same,” Daniel Villegas opens up on life after 2018 trial

Daniel Villegas Retrial Defense Opening Statement

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3 okt 2018 #DanielVillegas
 
Daniel Villegas Retrial Defense Opening Statement

Daniel’s Biggest Mistake.

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19 nov 2022
 
After bragging that he was responsible for a gang related shooting, Daniel Villegas, at the age of 16, would spend the next 2 decades behind bars.
3 Twelve years in maximum security prisons before he proved his innocence and was released

1 Wrongfully Imprisoned For Murder | Minutes With | UNILAD


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23 aug. 2020

This is part of a brand new series for this channel called “Minutes With…”.

In each episode we’ll sit down and talk to someone who has an interesting story to tell. In this episode we hear from Raphael Rowe, an innocent man wrongfully imprisoned for murder.

Raphael Rowe is on Twitter and Instagram: @areporter.

His autobiography ‘Notorious’ will be out this Autumn and Series 4 of ‘Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons’ is available on Netflix now.

Raphael Rowe

4 A travesty of justice

2 Man who spent 33 years in prison for 1989 shooting exonerated


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26 mei 2023 #Prison #NBCNews #Exonerated

Los Angeles officials say Daniel Saldana, 55, who spent 33 years in prison, was declared innocent and freed after being wrongfully convicted for a 1989 shooting in Baldwin Park. KNBC’s Ted Chen reports.

3 Man wrongfully convicted is exonerated after serving a 33-year prison sentence

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25 mei 2023
 
L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón announced the exoneration and release of Daniel Saldana, who was wrongfully convicted of attempted murder in 1990.

4 Dontae Sharpe: ‘My 26-year fight to prove my innocence’ – BBC News

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14 nov 2021 #BBCNews

“People think when you get exonerated the fight is over – it’s just beginning.”

Dontae Sharpe spent 26 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. After proving his innocence and fighting to have his name cleared, he was granted a full pardon on 12 November 2021.

This BBC documentary highlighted the miscarriage of justice, and his fight with the criminal justice system that stole his freedom.

5 Lamar Johnson spent 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit

5 Lamar Johnson on fight for freedom and exoneration

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Lamar Johnson spent 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss being exonerated, his decades-long fight to prove his innocence and what he would say to the witness whose testimony helped put him behind bars.

See an endless number of wrongful conviction cases under menu-item Baffing

Executed by mistake

6 Unforgettable Lies: Framing Jamie Snow

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9 mei 2023

Can you remember a stranger’s eyes after seeing them briefly from 200 feet away in the dark? What about eight years later? One witness claimed he could do just that, and Jamie Snow has been incarcerated for over 23 years for a crime he didn’t commit. Through the Making an Exoneree course at Georgetown University, students reinvestigated Jamie’s wrongful conviction case and are advocating for his freedom.

This film was created by Isabella Chiu, Jackson Edwards, and Maddy Langan from Georgetown University and Madeline Finkel, Kata Garcia De La Rosa, and Danny Moshayedi from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with support from Vanessa Torres from Georgetown Law.

7 Blind Man Falls Out of Porta Potty

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26 mei 2011
Part 1

Current Page

Part 2

Puzzling – Perplexing

Part 3

Social Conscience

Part 4

Deception is ethical

Part 5

No nonsense

Part 6

Hiding in Plain Sight

The notion of being human

Back against the wall

If the words don’t add up

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