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Duane Lake spent six years in Coahoma County jail for a murder he didn’t commit — almost three of them before he got indicted. The case against him was eventually dismissed. (Photo credit: Rory Doyle/MCIR)

MCIR: ‘The system is not designed for you to win’: Underfunded public defender system penalizes Mississippians
By Zhu Wu - Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
Mon,10/31/22-5:12PM, 165 Reads 5,537 Statewide
For over 20 years, Stephanie Mallette has served as a public defender working on part-time contracts with Oktibbeha and Webster counties in Mississippi.
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Sabrina Butler-Smith, 50, gazes at a photo of her infant son, Walter, who died on April 11, 1989, of polycystic kidney disease. Butler-Smith was convicted of killing and put on death row and finally exonerated fives years later following a retrial granted on appeal by the Mississippi Supreme Court. Katie Fogarty/MCIR

MCIR: Tunnel vision puts blinders on criminal justice system
By Katie Fogarty - Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
Mon,10/24/22-4:24PM, 882 Reads 22,590 Statewide
Sabrina Butler sat terrified in the dimly lit interrogation room in Columbus, Mississippi. White men towered over the 17-year-old Black grieving mother.

She killed her son, didn’t she? they fired at her. She killed him, they told her repeatedly, for over four hours.
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MCIR: Junk science tilts justice against those charged with crimes
By Susanna Granieri - Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
Fri,10/21/22-12:46PM, 225 Reads 6,181 Statewide
More than 3,200 Americans have been wrongfully convicted in recent decades, more than half of them because forensic science has been misapplied, or worse, the evidence is false.
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Sherwood Brown has been exonerated of the charges that sent him to death row in Mississippi in 1995 for a triple murder he did not commit. On August 24, 2021, DeSoto County Circuit Court Judge Jimmy McClure granbted a prosecution motion to dismiss charges against Brown (pictured after his release), who was released later that day after having spent 26 years on the state’s death row or facing the prospects of a capital retrial. Christina Stewbe/Mississippi Innocence Project

MCIR: Black Americans seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted
By Jerry Mitchell - Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
Tue,10/18/22-10:46AM, 234 Reads 5,492 Statewide
Eddie Lee Howard Jr. and Sherwood Brown each spent 26 years on Mississippi’s death row for murders they did not commit — only to walk free last year.
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