These stories are here to provide hope and motivation. These are successful exoneration stories from all over the country.

Angel Gonzalez

Angel Gonzalez

Time Served: 20 years

On March 10, 2015, Angel Gonzalez was exonerated after serving over 20 years in prison for a rape that he did not commit. In 1994, Gonzalez was misidentified by a rape victim as her assailant. After he was arrested, he was then misled by police into signing a false confession. Although Gonzalez maintained his innocence from the beginning, it wasn’t until 2013 that he was finally able to prove his innocence through DNA testing. He is now living free.

Anthony Wright

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Anthony Wright

Tine Served : 25 years

Anthony Wright endured two trials and 25 years in prison before a jury found him not guilty of the 1991 rape and murder of an elderly woman in Philadelphia. On Aug. 23, 2016, he became the 344th DNA exoneree in the nation.

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 Steven Barne

Steven Barnes

Time Served: 20 years

In 1989, Steven Barnes was convicted in upstate New York of a murder he didn’t commit based on questionable eyewitness identifications and three types of unvalidated forensic science. Nearly two decades later, on November 25, 2008, DNA testing obtained by the Innocence Project proved his innocence and he walked out of the Utica courthouse a free man.

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