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Michael Waithe, right, is congratulated by his attorney, Matthew Smalls, after being exonerated in New York on Thursday, Jan. 29. A state Supreme Court judge granted a prosecutor's motion to vacate Waithe's 1987 burglary conviction. Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson says in a statement Waithe came to the U.S. seeking a better life but was instead framed for a crime he didn't commit. (Associated Press)

D.C. joins effort to release the wrongly convicted after exonerations climb nationwide

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Study: 1 in 25 death cases likely innocent

By PETE YOST - Associated Press

Michael Morton poses March 29, 2012, for a photo in Austin, Texas. Morton is one of more than 2,000 people falsely convicted of a serious crime who have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new national registry, or database, assembled by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. (Associated Press)

Study: 2,000 convicted then exonerated in 23 years

By Pete Yost - Associated Press