A Manhattan judge vacated Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez's wrongful conviction in the killing of a retired New York City police ...

Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez has been exonerated of his wrongful murder conviction after serving nearly 24 years in prison.

Velasquez was released from prison in 2021 and began filming for the A24 film based on the prison of the same name.

In 1998, Velazquez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison despite not matching the suspect’s description. At the time, ...

Colman Domingo, Velazquez's co-star in the A24 film, tells PEOPLE: “This moves me to tears. It is his commitment to his own ...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez was exonerated in court on Monday after serving a 25-years-to-life sentence at Sing-Sing prison in ...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who recently appeared in the movie Sing Sing, had his conviction overturned Monday, after being ...

This is an indictment of the system.” Sing Sing actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has finally been exonerated after more than ...

Sing Sing’ actor Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez has been exonerated of his wrongful murder conviction, after serving 24 years in ...

The blame for the murder of the officer, Albert Ward, fell on Velázquez, who entered prison in 1998 despite inconclusive ...

A court in Japan has ruled that an 88-year-old former boxer sentenced to death in 1968 on a wrongful murder conviction is innocent. The Shizuoka District Court said on Thursday that Iwao Hakamada ...

The city needs to reform how it handles victim compensation in police misconduct and wrongful conviction cases ... was wrongfully convicted of an arson-murder and spent more than 20 years in ...