John, this week's headlines were dominated by Adnan Syed and his vacated conviction. After 20 years in jail for a wrongful conviction, he was freed.

His case received national — even worldwide — attention due to the hit podcast Serial, who covered his story and the inconsistencies of the case.

And 2 years after the podcast, Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn ordered Syed be freed and sent home while waiting for prosecutors to seek a new trial or finally drop their weak case. 

Who requested the judge to act though? None other than Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby who was endorsed by Real Justice. 

When we elect DAs who are focused on restoring justice in a community and righting the wrongs of the past instead of just filling up jails, and keeping wrongfully convicted people locked up — these are the kinds of results we see.

This is why we do what we do — but we can’t keep up our electoral efforts to elect more DAs who will free innocent people without your help. We are up against our End of Quarter deadline and still have a sizable gap to hit our goal, can you make a donation right now?

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While this case is getting MAJOR attention, our DAs have done similar work freeing folks who were trapped in prison for wrongful convictions.

Kim Foxx, a Real Justice DA in Cook County, which includes Chicago, announced that her office exonerated 8 people from murder convictions this year. 

All of these cases were connected to a corrupt and disgraced Chicago Police Detective, Reynaldo Guevara. In fact, DOZENS of his cases have been thrown out.

In those 30 cases, one put an innocent man in prison for 30 YEARS. Close to 10 years longer than Adnan. 

The Chicago detective had been accused of manipulating investigations and framing victims — ruining lives — but these wrongfully convicted people went free because Kim Foxx did the work to right his wrongs.

Kim has also thrown out over 100 convictions connected to another former police Sergeant — Ronald Watts — who also planted evidence and fabricated charges. 

THESE are the kinds of DAs we need in every single city and town across the country, restoring justice and not allowing the system to keep innocent men and women locked away.

And you can ensure we can continue our work to get them in office. Make a donation right now towards our End of Quarter goal so we have the resources to elect even more DAs like Marilyn and Kim.

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Real Justice