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Compensation for Wrongful Convictions in Massachusetts Hard to Get

By Christopher Zoukis Kevin O’Loughlin was wrongfully convicted of raping an 11-year-old girl in 1983. He spent almost four years in prison, where he endured multiple assaults – all for a crime he did not commit. Then a convicted rapist confessed that he was “99 percent sure” he had committed the sexual assault for which

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Virginia Governor Grants Full Pardons to the “Norfolk Four”

Four former U.S. Navy veterans wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman have been granted full pardons by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Eric Wilson, Danial Williams, Derek Tice, and Joseph Dick, Jr., known as the “Norfolk Four,” were arrested for raping and killing Michelle Moore-Bosko in 1997. Based almost entirely on

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