Midwest Innocence Project

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings, and that's the way I've got to look at life,” Johnson said. “I’m happy to have my life back, and I'm going to try to make the best of it.”

A Missouri judge says no jury today would convict Christopher Dunn. Why is he still in prison?

"The Court's confidence in Strickland's conviction is so undermined that it cannot stand," the judge wrote. Strickland's wrongful imprisonment for nearly 43 years is among the country's longest.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled against Lamar Johnson on March 2. The St. Louis man has been helped by the Midwest Innocence Project and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office in seeking his freedom after 26 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Attorney Lindsay Runnels discussed his next steps on "St. Louis on the Air."

The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether prosecutors have the power to try to fix what they believe are wrongful convictions in decades-old…

Updated Dec. 11 with oral argumentsThe ability of prosecutors in Missouri to undo wrongful convictions they discover is in the hands of a state appeals…

A St. Louis judge has ruled that Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner does not have the authority to ask for a new trial in the case of a man Gardner says was…

The St. Louis prosecutor is defending her authority to ask for a new trial for a man she says was wrongfully convicted of murder and armed criminal action…

The City of St. Louis has received federal funding to review cases where the wrong person may be in prison.Circuit attorney Kim Gardner and the Midwest…