Adopted Case List

Exonerated or Similar

First date is proposal, second is freedom/exoneration.

1. Adnan Syed, 7 November 2015, 11 October 2022
2. Keith Carnes, 3 December 2016,  8 April 2022
3. Melvin and George DeJesus, 21 December 2015, March 23, 2022
4. Vincent Simmons, 20 January, 2017, February 15, 2022
5. Devonia Inman, 15 March, 2016, 24 December, 2021
6. Emerson Stevens, 1 February 2017, 19 May 2017/16 August 2021
7. Charles Goldblum, 8 February, 2016, February 2021
8. Kenneth Nixon, 14 November 2018, 18 February 2021
9. Eddie Lee Howard†, 24 June 2015, January 8, 2021
10. Curtis Flowers, 10 July 2018, 4 September 2020
11. Ronnie Long, 24 October 2014, 31 August 2020
12. Marilyn Mulero†, 12 October 2015, April 6 2020
13. Joe Bryan, 3 June 2018, 20 March, 2020
14. Rodney Patrick McNeal, 20 September 2015, 27 March 2020
15. Suzanne Johnson, 19 November 2015, 27 March 2020
16. Xavier Walker, 24 July 2018, 11 December 2019
17. Willard O’Neal, 18 August 2015, 12 September 2019
18. Casmer Volk, 31 January, 2017, 15 August 2019
19. Ricky Kidd, 22 November, 2016, 15 August 2019
20. Adam Braseel, 22 August 2014, 2 August 2019
21. Belynda Goff, 14 May 2017, 27 June 2019
22. Mark Carver, 15 June 2017, 11 June 2019
23. Sean Ellis, 19 May 2015, December 18, 2018
24. Matt Sopron, 12 June 2015, December 18, 2018
25. Jeromy Poirier, 4 November 2016, June 16 2018
26. Rodney Lincoln, 26 June 2014, June 1 2018
27. John Kunco, 23 May 2018, 23 May 2018
28. Corey Williams†,  4 January 2016, 22 May 2018
29. Kevin Bailey, 10 November 2015, 29 January 2018
30. Diane Fleming, 1 August 2015, 5 January 2018
31. Kirstin Blaise Lobato, 27 May 2014, 29 December 2017
32. Arturo Reyes and Gabriel Solache, 11 August 2016, 22 December 2017
33. Raymond Tempest, 4 July 2015, 22 September 2015 (bail), 18 December 2017
34. Joseph Giarratano†, 25 October 2015, November 21, 2017
35. Tyra Patterson, 17 January 2016, 25 October 2017
36. Lamonte McIntyre, 26 October 2016, 13 October 2017
37. John Horton, 30 November 2014, 4 October 2017
38. Selwyn Days, 18 August 2017, 12 September 2017
39. Patrick Pursley, 28 November, 2016, 27 April 2017
40. Lamarr Monson, 21 December 2015, 1 February 2017
41. Angelika Graswald, 24 January, 2017, 24 July 2017
42. Lorenzo Johnson 16 April 2015, 11 July 2017
43. Rodricus Crawford†, 26 November 2016, 19 April 2017
44. Chris Tapp, 6 June 2015, March 22, 2017
45. Jason David Sadowski, 14 January, 2017, 17 March 2017
46. Michael Peterson, 24 October 2014, 24 February 2017
47. Charles Johnson and Larod Styles, 26 December 2016, 15 February 2017
48. Robert Jones, 29 October 2015, 26 January 2017
49. Jimmy Dennis†,4 April 2015, 24 December 2016
50. Michael Amick, 27 June 2015, 1 December 2016
51. Darryl Howard, 4 July 2015, 31 August 2016
52. Ingmar Guandique, 28 May 2015, 28 July 2016
53. Kimberly Long, 24 August 2015, 10 June 2016
54. Davontae Sanford, 15 August 2015, 8 June 2016
55. Jerome Morgan, 19 May 2016, 31 May 2016
56. Lorinda Swain, 7 April 2016, 18 May 2016
57. Malcolm Scott and De’Marchoe Carpenter, 23 September 2015, 9 May 2016
58. Connie Oakes, 3 February 2016, 28 April 2016
59. Jack McCullough, 29 October 2015, 15 April 2016
60. Keith Allen Harward, 2 April 2016, 7 April 2016
61. Cherelle Baldwin, 10 July 2015, 31 March 2016
62. The Fairbanks Four, 26 June 2015, 18 December 2015
63. Floyd Bledsoe, 26 October 2015,  8 December 2015
64. Richard Raugust, 6 September 2015, 4 December 2015
65. Barry Beach, 25 August 2014, 20 November 2015
66. Russ Faria, 7 August 2014, 6 November 2015
67. Johnny Hincapie, 7 August 2015, 6 October 2015
68. Mario Casciaro, 4 October 2014, 23 September 2015
69. Michelle Byrom†, 31 July 2014, 26 June 2015
70. Stacey Hyde, 13 November 2014, 21 May 2015
71. Hannah Overton, 1 July 2014, 8 April 2015
72. Anthony Ray Hinton†, 18 March 2015, 2 April 2015
73. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, 28 May 2014, 27 March 2015
74. Debra Milke†, 11 June 2014, 17 March 2015
75. Marissa Alexander, 19 June 2014, 27 January 2015
76. Robert Fischer, 20 December 2014
77. Shrien Dewani, 20 November 2014, 8 December 2014
78. Mark Woodworth, 18 June 2014, 15 July 2014
79. Michael Skakel, 8 June 2015, 21 Nov 2013

† indicates a death penalty case.

Time-served or paroled ( may still be fighting for exoneration )

1. Charles Erickson, 29 June 2014, 9 January 2023
2. Michael Politte, 11 September 2016, 22 April 2022
3. Jon-Adrian Velazquez, 16 February 2015, 18 August 2021 ( sentenced commuted by Governor )
4. David Diaz, 10 June 2018, November 10, 2020 ( sentence commuted by Governor )
5. Steven Crain,  8 February, 2016
6. Courtney Bisbee , 1 June 2014, 17 November 2016
7. Shirley Southerland, 9 October 2014, 14 July 2015

Free but in jeopardy

Released on bail pending retrial or charges being dropped.
First date is proposal, second is date released.

1. Elwood Jones†, 10 March 2017, 14 January 2023
2. Rodney Stanberry, 13 May 2015, 13 March, 2017
3. Bill Windsor, 26 September 2015
4. To Be Exonerated ( incarcerated )

The date given is the proposal date.

1. Paul Brock, 17 May 2022
2.  Michael Harold Chapel, 17 July 2021
3. Bulos Zumot, 4 May 2021
4. Luke Mitchell, 26 February 2021
5. Mike Crump, 26 February 2021
6. Wilson Rivera ,4 February 2021
7. Eric Anderson , 2 February 2021
8. Wayne Grimes, 20 January 2021
9. Jeffrey Abramowski, 8 March 2020
10. Jerome Kowalski, 15 December 2019
11. Michael P. McCarthy, 14 December 2019
12. John Maloney, 19 November 2019
13. Austin T Burke, 28 October 2019
14. John Brookins, 24 October 2019
15. James Dailey†, 12 October, 2019
16. Lindsay Partin, 11 October 2019
17. Toforest Johnson†,  7 August 2019
18. Michael Astorga†, 11 August 2019
19. Billie Jerome Allen†, 5 August 2019
20. Joey Watkins, 6 July 2019
21. Jens Söring, 5 June 2019
22. Kim Hoover-Moore, 12 November 2018
23. James Evans, 23 October 2018
24. Alfred Trenkler, 22 October 2018
25. Antonio Williams, Kendrick Gillum, and Demarco T. Wilson, 19 October 2018
26. Robert Pape and Cristin Smith, 3 October 2018
27. Jeremy Bamber, 20 September 2018
28. Troy Legette, 26 September 2018
29. Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens, 19 September 2018
30. James Davis, 12 September 2018
31. Michael Shingatok,11 September 2018
32. Omar Benguit,18 August 2018
33. Rodney Franck, 21 July 2018
34. Julius Jones, 7 July 2018
35. KC Grondin, 22 June 2019
36. Charles Douglas Raby, 25 May 2018
37. Pamela Lanier, 23 May 2018
38. Gregory Lance, 17 Feb 2017
39. Barry Jones, 17 Feb 2018
40. Hector Perez, 7 Feb 2018
41. Jacob Silva, 28 Jan 2018
42. Anthony Perez, 28 Jan 2018
43. Lee Calvert, 15 December 2017
44. Justin Erskine, 13 December 2017
45. Zach and Dylan Adams, 5 December 2017
46. Deontae Fulton, 15 November 2017
47. Victoria Rickman, 12 November 2017
48. Dana Chandler, 1 November 2017
49. Michael Sullivan, 29 October 2017
50. Bryan Anthony Adams, 19 October 2017
51. Donna Hockman, 15 October 2017
52. Stacy Ramsey and Deion Harris, 28 September 2017
53. Brenda Fay Nelson†, 22 September 2017
54. Chris Ferrell, 2 September 2017
55. Marcellus Williams, 2 September 2017
56. Shane O. Todd, 31 August 2017
57. Ryan Mickey, 18 August 2017
58. Michael Cope, 17 August 2017
59. Kimberly Renee Poole,10 August 2017
60. Anthony Burries, 10 August 2017
61. Corey Walker, 7 August 2017
62. Ralph Trent Stokes, 5 August 2017
63. James Joseph Olague, 5 August 2017
64. Joel Atkin, 2 August 2017
65. Kevin Brian Dowling, 17 July 2017
66. Jermaine Smothers, 4 July 2017
67. Michael Ardis Bell, 1 July 2017
68. John Bradley Atkinson, 21 June 2017
69. DeShon Thomas, 9 June 2017
70. Michael Stone, 7 June 2017
71. Kevin Keith, 4 June 2017
72. Kris Helton, 26 May 2017
73. Christopher Charles Forbit, 11 May 2017
74. Marvin Cotton,7 May 2017
75. Mary Jane Kimberly Lee Johns, 21 April 2017
76. Holly McFeeture,1 April 2017
77. Joe Robertson,28 March 2017
78. Sylvester Davis,27 March 2017
79. Marcel Johnson†,27 March 2017
80. Tom Wilkerson,30 March 2017
81. Charles Leroy Cope,18 March 2017
82. Nicholas Newbold,17 March 2017
83. Charles Alan Dyer, 19 February 2017
84. Krishna Maharaj†, 17 February 2017
85. Don Roberts and Glynn Simmons†, 8 February 2017
86. Daniel Gwynn†, 8 February 2017
87. Daniel Holtzclaw, 27 January, 2017
88. Danny Lee Thompson, 20 January, 2017
89. Schaeffer Cox, 23 January, 2017
90. Ronald DiMambro Jr., 17 January, 2017
91. Nathanial Allen, 9 January, 2017
92. John N. Prante, 4 January, 2017
93. Timothy Burchard, 28 December 2016
94. Andrew Krivak, 23 December 2016
95. The 8th and H thirteen, 21 December 2016
96. Marcus and Brandon Wallace,20 December 2016
97. Hooman Ashkan Panah†, 15 December 2016
98. Jessie McKim, 12 December 2016
99. Tyrone Noling†, 7 December 2016
100. Walif Smith, 2 December 2016
101. George Powell, 30 November, 2016
102. Rhonda Orr, 29 November, 2016
103. Justin Ross Harris, 19 November, 2016
104. Ivan Cantu†,15 November 2017
105. Vanessa Cameron, 1 November, 2016
106. Trevin Gamble, 1 November 2016
107. Sherman Brown, 26 October 2016
108. Sonny Bharadia, 12 October 2016
109. Antoine Young, 12 October 2016
110. Sarah Jo Pender, 3 October 2016
111. Joseph Buffey, 3 October 2016
112. David Shelton, 23 September 2016
113. George Gage, 9 August 2016
114. Dylan Yang, 8 August 2016
115. Timothy Fisher, 10 July 2016
116. Manuel Ortiz†, 28 April 2016
117. McKinley Phipps, 26 April 2016
118. Stephen Newman, 24 April 2016
119. Ray Meyers, 22 April 2016
120. Kyle Evans, 16 April 2016
121. David Johnson, 4 April, 2016
122. John Muise, 3 April 2016
123. Jeffrey MacDonald, 19 March 2016
124. Rob Will†, 28 March, 2016
125. Pamela Smart, 19 March, 2016
126. Richard Jacobs, 11 March, 2016
127. Amanda Brumfield, 8 March, 2016
128. Dennis and Dameko Vesey, 3 March, 2016
129. Clayton Mibroda, 28 February, 2016
130. Alfonso Staton, 25 February, 2016
131. Kenneth Clair, 17 February, 2016
132. Humberto Sanchez-Rengifo, 17 February 2016
133. Paul Cortez, 7 February, 2016
134. Kevin Cooper†, 1 February, 2016
135. Jimmie Duncan, 31 January, 2016
136. Kevin Black, 30 January, 2016
137. Joseph Thomas, 26 January, 2016
138. Brendan Dassey, 22 January 2016
139. Justin Boyce, 17 January 2016
140. Charles Don Flores†, 15 January 2016
141. Steven Avery, 23 December 2015
142. Daniel Wolfe and Gregory Derbyshire, 23 December 2015
143. John Giuca, 22 December 2015
144. Scott Davis, 16 December 2015
145. Darrell Lomax†, 1 December 2015
146. Jerry Hammond, 30 November 2015
147. Grady Attaway, 28 November 2015
148. Michael Cassidy, 7 November 2015
149. Donald Tolliver, 5 November 2015
150. Cyntoia Brown, 27 October 2015
151. Chris Jacobs, 25 October 2015
152. Lamont McKoy, 22 October 2015
153. Barbara Holder, 21 October 2015
154. Marlon Howell†, 16 October 2015
155. David Randoph Blue, 14 October 2015
156. Quincy Foster, 13 October 2015
157. Jose Mendoza, 10 October 2015
158. Jeffrey Weinhaus, 1 October 2015
159. Robert Ferrante, 26 September 2015
160. Harvey Windsor†, 25 September 2015
161. David Thorne, 31 August 2015
162. Aaron Finley, 31 August 2015
163. Preston Grant Hawkins, 28 August 2015
164. Donald Deardorff†, 23 August 2015
165. Gerald Marshall†, 5 August 2015
166. Dennis Dechaine, 30 July 2015
167. Linda Carty†, 30 July 2015
168. Jermane Scott, 27 July 2015
169. David Mark Temple, 20 July 2015
170. Howard Guidry†, 20 July 2015
171. Arron Adams, 20 July 2015
172. Matthew Riley, 19 July 2015
173. Cyrus Wilson, 18 July 2015
174. Christopher Coleman, 3 July 2015
175. Tommy Ziegler†, 28 June 2015
176. Kenneth Moore, 26 June 2015
177. Jason Young, 20 June 2015
178. Stobert Holt, 19 June 2015
179. Edgar Patino†, 18 June 2015
180. Dustin Turner, 15 June 2015
181. Jeffrey Braun, 10 June 2015
182. Anthony Davis, 10 June 2015
183. Anant Tripanti, 8 June 2015
184. Michael Clark, 2 June 2015
185. Singa Jones, 1 June 2015
186. Timothy McEnany, 29 May 2015
187. Brian Davis†, 28 May 2015
188. Lincoln Keith, 26 May 2015
189. Amanda Lewis, 22 May 2015
190. Brian Peixoto, 9 May 2015
191. Charles Farrar, 8 May 2015
192. Anthony Vasquez ,7 May 2015
193. Wayne Williams, 1 May 2015
194. Gary Bennett, 24 April 2015
195. Sabrina and Cosima Misseri, 19 April 2015
196. Melissa Calusinski,19 April 2015
197. Daniel Blan, 21 March 2015
198. Christy Phillips, 8 March 2015
199. Charles Ajokolo, 25 February 2015
200. Steven Castenado, 20 February 2015
201. Ryan Widmer,  5 February 2015
202. Benny Lopez, 3 February 2015
203. Jeremiah Dewey, 2 February 2015
204. Guy Heinze Jnr. 31 January 2015
205. Kara Garvin. 28 January 2015
206. Tim Casner, 24 January 2015
207. Richard Glossip†, 3 January 2015
208. Eric Koula, 19 December 2014
209. Orville Lee Woollard, 11 December 2014
210. Jason Payne, 24 November 2014
211. Christina Williams, 20 November 2014
212. Jessie B, 14 November 2014
213. Larry Bones,14 November 2014
214. Rodney Reed†, 5 November 2014
215. Tyrone Thompson†, 22 October 2014
216. Mike Deloe, 17 October 2014
217. Felix Garcia, 1 October 2014
218. Hubert Mayhugh, 23 September 2014
219. Sean Killian, 5 September 2014
220. Debra Dewberry, 27 August 2014
221. Hank Skinner†, 9 August 2014
222. Oscar Pistorius, 28 July 2014
223. Shawn Juntonen, 26 July 2014
224. Jodi Arias†, 21 July 2014
225. Billy Kuenzel†, 10 July 2014
226. John Ramos, 8 July 2014
227. Diane Downs, 4 July 2014
228. Glenn Fritz , 28 June 2014
229. Scott Peterson†, 27 June 2014
230. Jay Biggs, 24 June 2014
231. Craigavon Two, 21 June 2014
232. Jamie Snow, 20 June 2014
233. Peter Wlasiuk, 16 June 2014
234. Nyki Kish, 14 June 2014
235. Byron Case, 14 June 2014
236. Darlie Routier†, 8 June 2014
237. John Kinsel, 3 June 2014
238. James Stone, 2 June 2014

Deceased – Rest in Peace

1. Larry Swearingen  †, Executed on 21 August, 2017
2. Robert Pruett †, Executed on 12 October, 2017
3. Billy Wayne Cope, Died on 9 February, 2017
4. Richard Masterson†, Executed on 20 January 2016
5. Donnis George Musgrove†, Died on 26 November 2015
6. Lester Bower†, Executed on 3 June 2015

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