Innocence Project

The city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri will pay nearly $14 million to the family of a man wrongfully convicted of the 1982 rape and murder of a…

George Allen served 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.Last year, a judge told Allen that he had been wrongfully convicted and set him free.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 4, 2012 - Attorney General Chris Koster is opposed to retrying the case of George Allen Jr., a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 5, 2012 - A Missouri man who received $4 million in compensation for wrongful imprisonment says…

Updated 2:37 p.m. with St. Louis Public Radio story.Lawyers for a man convicted in the rape and murder of a St. Louis woman nearly 30 years ago filed…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 26, 3011 - In July 1983, George Allen Jr., of University City, was convicted of the brutal…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 12, 2011 - A judge in Chicago has ordered students to turn over more than 500 emails between…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 25, 2011 - In 2009, when a prosecutor went to court to force David Protess to release…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 22, 2010 - The surreptitious recording of conversations by a reporter - a tricky legal and…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 18, 2009 - In England, the government collects DNA samples from its citizens with far greater…