The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.
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 pleaded guilty to a lesser charge on the advice of counsel and was released from prison for the time he already served. Don Ray Adams lost his brother and the family business while serving time for a double-homicide. When the eyewitness recanted, Adams …
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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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BREAKING NEWS: David Munchinski ordered released on bond
Munchinski Ordered Released on Bond David Munchinski, the first subject of an Innocence Institute of Point Park University investigation, was ordered released on bond this morning after 25 years in prison by a federal judge who said "I don't think he should have been convicted....see more later today at www.innocenceinstitute.org. Bond Hearing Scheduled for Munchinski A hearing to …
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Philadelphia Man Freed As Lying Eyewitness Recants
Don Ray Adams served almost 20 years before acquittal in 1990 double murder By Darlene White Natale The Innocence Institute of Point Park University In 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a late-stage appeal on his 1990 double-murder conviction, Don Ray Adams resigned himself to life in prison for something he always maintained he didn’t do, and told his family to forget about …
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