Conviction review
Convictions that were overturned, and innocence claims courts are ruling on this week. Read what the evidence was and where it broke.
Thomas Haynesworth
Thomas Haynesworth (born March 21, 1965) is a resident of Richmond, Virginia, who served 27 years in state prison as a result of four wrongful convictions for crimes for which he was exonerated in 2011. Haynesworth was arrested in Richmond at the age of 18 in 1984 after a woman identified him as her attacker. He was convicted of four violent rapes in the East End of the city.
2002 · VirginiaExonerated 2002Marvin Anderson
Marvin Anderson served 15 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of robbery, sodomy, abduction, and rape.
1996 · VirginiaExonerated 1996Troy Webb
In 1989, Troy Webb was wrongly convicted of an abduction and rape he did not commit in Virginia Beach. He was later exonerated in 1996.
1993 · VirginiaExonerated 1993Walter Snyder
In 1986, Walter Snyder was wrongly convicted of rape in Alexandria, Virginia. He was later granted an absolute pardon in 1993.
1994 · VirginiaExonerated 1994Edward Honaker
In 1994, Edward Honaker was pardoned on the basis of actual innocence of a 1984 sexual assault in Nelson County, Virginia.
2011 · VirginiaExonerated 2011Thomas Haynesworth
Thomas Haynesworth is one of eight people whose story is featured in the Innocence Project-inspired Netflix docuseries “The Innocence Files."
2000 · VirginiaExonerated 2000Earl Washington
In 1984, Earl Washington was wrongly convicted of a rape and murder in Virginia. He was later exonerated in 2000.
2016 · VirginiaExonerated 2016Keith Allen Harward
Keith Allen Harward walked out of prison on April 8, 2016, after wrongly serving more than 33 years for a rape and murder he did not commit.
2024 · VirginiaExonerated 2024Marvin Grimm, Jr.
In June 2024, Marvin Grimm Jr. was exonerated of a 1975 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of a three-year-old boy in Richmond, Virginia.
1989 · VirginiaExonerated 1989David Vasquez
In 1985, David Vasquez was wrongly convicted of a murder he did not commit in Virginia. He was later exonerated in 1989.