Seven of the plaintiffs were ultimately convicted, and all received pardons last year.
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Laura Romero,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
The Potential Benefits of Conditional Pardons How, then, can the president’s ability to issue conditional pardons or commutations serve to mitigate the most notable downsides of this country’s growing pardon debacle?
By simultaneously hitting three or more targets, these agents promise not only deeper responses but potentially longer remissions in some of the hardest-to-treat cancers.
The new indictments come as legal teams for both Jones and Dowling are in the process of seeking acquittals from Summit County Common Pleas Judge Susan Baker Ross after evidence presented at a six-week trial in Akron failed in March to lead to unanimity among jurors, who deliberated for nine days.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
The new indictments come as legal teams for both Jones and Dowling are in the process of seeking acquittals from Summit County Common Pleas Judge Susan Baker Ross after evidence presented at a six-week trial in Akron failed in March to lead to unanimity among jurors, who deliberated for nine days.
The law isn’t perfect, raising several barriers to testing, but still, DNA evidence has featured in 17 of Florida’s 30 death row exonerations.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2026
Although Simon has never been charged with a crime, many of her former cases are under review and more exonerations are expected, attorneys with the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic told CNN.
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