The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.
The Innocence Institute is coming to an end
To Whom It May Concern: After eleven years of award-winning journalism, the Innocence Institute of Point Park University is closing its doors. We have arrived at this heartbreaking outcome despite huge successes over the years in which it has not only enabled young men and women as investigative reporters in the criminal justice field, but changed the lives of many people whose convictions were …
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Compensating Wrongfully Convicted
By Darlene Natale Just before Danny Tyus’s retrial for murder, the prosecution’s case fell apart when the eyewitness admitted he lied. Tyus accepted the prosecution's offer to drop the homicide charge if he pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and was released from prison for the time he already served. Don Ray Adams lost his brother and the family business …
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Weimer’s Appeal Continued
By Leah Welch and Paige Krivda Crystal Dawn Weimer's PRCA hearing in Fayette County will have a second act as Judge Wagner how allowed her 45 days to review her 2001 court transcripts. "[I'm] trying to get it form being remanded again," Judge Wagner told the court Wednesday in response to his decision allowing Weimer time to read the transcripts to review improper closing …
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Munchinski is Free
After 25 years in prison in the ‘Bear Rocks Murders,” Former Latrobe Man Released Pending Outcome of Appeal By Leah Welch and Darlene Natale The Innocence Institute of Point Park University PITTSBURGH—As a bare-headed and graying David Munchinski, still wearing drab blue prison garb, emerged into a steady downpour from prison for the first time in 25 years, he first stumbled …
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Munchinski’s Release Ordered By Federal Judge
After 25 years in prison in the “Bear Rocks Murders,” Former Latrobe Man Released Pending Outcome of Appeal By Bill Moushey The Innocence Institute of Point Park University PITTSBURGH-- Just a month after she deemed David Munchinski’s conviction in a 1978 double-murder unworthy of confidence, a federal judge ordered the former Latrobe man’s release after 25 years in prison as he …
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