Wrongful Convictions

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker shares her thoughts on wrongful convictions in Missouri and the motion to vacate conviction filed in the Michael Politte case in Washington County.

Attorney Joel Schwartz’s work defending Russell Faria led to “Bone Deep,” a new book co-authored by Charles Bosworth Jr.

A new podcast asks who really killed JoAnn Tate and launches a more complicated investigation than anyone predicted.

Linda Dickerson-Bell said she believes Michael Politte is innocent of the murder of his mother, Rita Politte.

Michael Politte is serving a life sentence after a jury found he murdered his mother, Rita Politte, as a 14-year-old in Washington County, Missouri. On this special edition of "St. Louis on the Air," attorneys for the Midwest Innocence Project and the MacArthur Justice Center explain why he’s not guilty — and what investigators got wrong.

Missouri’s AG’s Office has opposed calls for relief in nearly every wrongful conviction case since 2000.

Attorneys Bill Freivogel, Eric Banks and Nicole Gorovsky discuss the ongoing federal trial of three St. Louis police officers charged with beating colleague Luther Hall while he was working undercover. They explain how the officers' fate was nearly decided by an all-white jury.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled against Lamar Johnson on March 2. The St. Louis man has been helped by the Midwest Innocence Project and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office in seeking his freedom after 26 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Attorney Lindsay Runnels discussed his next steps on "St. Louis on the Air."

The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether prosecutors have the power to try to fix what they believe are wrongful convictions in decades-old…

The City of St. Louis has received federal funding to review cases where the wrong person may be in prison.Circuit attorney Kim Gardner and the Midwest…