#waybackwednesday with NCIP Executive Director Linda Starr and former NCIP Assistant Legal Director Maitreya Badami 📚⚖️ NCIP is celebrating 20 years! Help us continue the fight by donating at ncip.org

“To the innocent people who have lost decades of their lives, this bill shows that the people of Idaho care about them and welcome them back to freedom.” - Dr. Greg Hampikian, co-director of The Idaho Innocence Project eastidahonews.com/2021/02/senate…

On February 2, 2021, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles found NCIP client Arturo Jimenez factually innocent. The face and joy of a free person 🙌 congratulations Arturo! #ncip #justice #freedom

Heartbreaking. When we unjustly take time from innocent people they can never get it back. kansascity.com/news/local/cri…

“I knew the day was coming. I just didn't know how or when but I knew this day would get here." -Kenneth Nixon detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

Progress on the Idaho Wrongful Conviction Act! The bill has officially passed through both the Idaho House of Representatives and the Idaho Senate and is now on it’s way to the governor’s desk! idahonews.com/news/local/ida…

BREAKING: Idaho just became the 36th state to compensate the wrongfully convicted! A huge thanks to exonerees Chris Tapp, Charles Fain, bill sponsors Senator Doug Ricks and Barbara Ehardt and our partners at IDInnocenceProject for taking us to the finish line! bit.ly/3c6Wyyx

For over ten years the Georgia Innocence Project staff and volunteers, including our own Dr. Greg Hampikian, have been working to exonerate client Terry Talley. As of February 23rd Mr. Talley is officially a free man. Read his story below! georgiainnocenceproject.org/cases/freed-cl…

Congrats to Curtis Flowerss on his marriage! Curtis spent 23 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit and was tried six times before being freed in 2019 with the help of Mississippi Center for Justice. bit.ly/3cd4qji

This week the Idaho Innocence Project team met to celebrate the recent victories and discuss upcoming cases. Recent news of the passing of the Idaho Wrongful Conviction act has us more excited than ever to continue fighting for those who have been wrongfully convicted.

Wrongful convictions not only impact the wrongfully incarcerated individual, but their entire family. Pictured is RMIC Exoneree Chris Wickham, and his wife Lisa (center), with RMIC attorneys and staff. Read more about Chris' innocence story on our website buff.ly/3mzzahn

Individuals who were exonerated in 2020 lost a total of 1,737 years to wrongful imprisonment. Read the Registry’s annual report to learn more about 2020 exonerations: bit.ly/3rD9DWa

Jermaine Hudson, represented by Promise of Justice Initiative, spent 22 years in prison after being wrongly convicted based on false testimony. bit.ly/2PcdTyX

“Conscience demands that anyone falsely convicted of a crime and later exonerated should not walk away with little more than a handshake and the clothes on his back.” Read the rest of this piece by the Lewiston Tribune in the link below! lmtribune.com/opinion/idaho-…

The bill is named for exoneree Walter Lomax who spent 39 years wrongly incarcerated and has championed change since his exoneration. bit.ly/31ARtKa

The Innocence Project recently recognized Sen. Ricks for his tireless work advocating for Idahoans wrongfully convicted and incarcerated and work on SB 1027. “We as a state, as a society and as citizens have an obligation to make it right” #idleg #idpol

Yesterday, #NCIP client Clifton Jones was released from prison after 15 years and 4 months. The fight for Clifton’s #exoneration doesn’t end here! Thank you to all the NCIP staff, students, and supporters who were there at Clifton’s release. As Clifton said, he “felt the love.”

Join NCIP this Friday at 11am PST on facebook.com/norcalinnocence for a discussion on ‘#SecondChanceMonth From the Lens of the Wrongfully Convicted’ with NCIP client Maurice Caldwell and NCIP Staff Attorney Paige Kaneb

Idaho Innocence Project helped police identify new suspect Brian Dripps by forensic genealogy, for the crime that Christopher Tapp spent 20 years in prison, wrongfully convicted. Today, Dripps was sentenced, after having confessed to the rape and murder of Angie Dodge.

Innocent man will be compensated for 18 years on #Idaho's death row (video). idahostatesman.com/news/local/art… Idaho Statesman IDInnocenceProject Witness to Innocence Death Penalty Information Center #CharlesFain #deathpenalty