BREAKING: Three Men Are Exonerated in Philadelphia After 28 Years of Wrongful Conviction

(Philadelphia, PA — May 26, 2026) Today, a Philadelphia judge vacated the convictions of Jermal Shuler, Marc Brittingham, and Rasheed Smith in a 1997 North Philadelphia murder after new forensic evidence discredited expert testimony about the victim’s time of death, undermining the prosecution’s core theory at trial. Mr. Shuler, Mr. Brittingham, and Mr. Smith spent…

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James Kuppelberg

James Kluppelberg was wrongfully convicted of a possible arson and related six-person homicide which occurred in the early morning hours of March 1984 on the south side of Chicago. Nearly four years passed until Kluppelberg was interrogated and arrested for setting the fire. Detectives severely beat Kluppelberg, causing injuries so serious that the court concluded …

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