Report: Suffolk County second in per capita exonerations

Check out this article in MA Lawyers Weekly, which explains how Suffolk County, Massachusetts, has the second-highest number of exonerations per capita in the country, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. The article reports that New Orleans County, Louisiana has the highest number of exonerations per capita. Exonerations are cases in which a person is convicted of a crime but is later found to have not committed the crime. The article mentions the exoneration of our client Charles Wilhite, who filed his civil lawsuit last week. The article also mentions one man whose case was dismissed after the Lowell drug informant scandal, in which an informant was found to have been planting evidence to secure convictions for the Lowell Police. Our firm is handling several civil rights cases involving the improper use of informants by the Lowell Police. Read about one of these cases in the Boston Globe.