Murder conviction thrown out, man freed at last
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A Colorado judge today threw out Tim Masters' 1999 murder conviction and ordered Masters freed immediately. Cheers and applause erupted as Masters walked out of court with his attorneys. "They did a fantastic job," Masters said.
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A teen freed from prison this year after his life sentence for killing a young playmate was overturned received an extended probation period Friday after violating his curfew, and was freed once more.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
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An American convicted 10 months ago for murder in Nicaragua is vindicated but not liberated  -  and the judge who ordered him free may lose his job
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A divided appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man condemned for killing and beheading his common-law wife's three children.
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An Australian who became the first person convicted at an American war crimes trial since World War II was freed from prison after completing his U.S.-imposed sentence.
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The man accused of harbouring two men convicted of involvement in the Bali nightclub bombings has been acquitted by Indonesia&#39;s Supreme Court.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A convicted murderer who escaped from a work release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been working construction jobs using his real name, U.S. Marshals announced Saturday.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia -- His sodomy conviction overturned by Malaysia's highest court, Anwar Ibrahim was set free yesterday, six years to the day after the onetime heir apparent to the country's premiership was fired during a divisive fight with his political mentor.
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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago is jailed for life after changes to the double jeopardy law allowed him to be retried.
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A man who spent 18 years in prison on a rape charge walked out of court Tuesday a free man, exonerated by DNA evidence.
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A confessed serial killer was put away for the rest of his life Tuesday after being convicted in a murder case brought by Michigan prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison less two years from now.
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An appeals court in Ohio is reported to have overturned the conviction and death sentence on a British man.
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A loyalist double murderer is to be freed from prison after a review board recommended his release.
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Prosecutors moved Friday to drop the murder case against a man freed after nearly a decade in prison, but stopped short of saying he was exonerated by the DNA evidence that led a judge to overturn his conviction.
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A man who spent 17 years behind bars for killing his parents will not face a second trial after his conviction was overturned by an appeals court, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday against a Texas man who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he may not have committed.