Lawyers

• Black people Wrongfully Convicted Of Crime More Often, Data Shows

  Hundreds of black men and women are convicted, exonerated for crimes they didn't commit, compared to the white counterparts in the U.S.

• Pedro Hernandez Found Guilty of Murder and Kidnapping, Etan Patz Case Closed

  Etan Patz murder, a 1979 case that was one of New York's "oldest and most painful unsolved crimes” is finally brought to a close.

• Beach Boy's longtime collaborator faces five years in prison over rape conviction

  Scott Bennett, a multi-instrumentalist who has recorded and toured steadily with Brian Wilson since 1998, was convicted of rape by instrumentation and sexual battery on April 29.

• Israeli Yosef Haim Ben-David convicted for killing Palestinian teen; Court voted against insanity plea

  A man was convicted after kidnapping, torturing, and killing a Palestinian teenager. The case of Mohammed Abu Khudair will finally be put to a conclusion after Yosef Haim Ben-David was found guilty of murdering the teenager. His two other younger accomplices were sentenced in February, while he is expected to be sentenced this May,

• Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade stabber convicted of murder; Court criticized police for the incident

  The Gay Pride Parade stabber, Yishai Schlissel was convicted of murder following the death of a teenage girl. The court called for the attention of the police for being unable to stop Schlissel from entering the event despite his record. Six officers were relieved of their job following the event.

• Washington U.S. attorney sets up first unit to ID wrongful convictions

  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington has set up the first federal unit in the nation to identify and investigate cases that ended in wrongful convictions, the office said on Friday.