The Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice

11/30/2021

The exonerated over the past year are breathtaking. If only people truly cared about imprisoning people who actually committed crimes vs getting a conviction.

It’s a long worm that doesn’t turn.

06/21/2019

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-black-death-row-inmate-over-prosecutor-s-n1019666?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_blk&fbclid=IwAR3VyRBNuZ_oOB3RuC7fbdg6QdAD_mj80jwSadqV8dCydAG0K-NaJPZcTAQ

The court sent the case back to Mississippi for further proceedings.

07/12/2018

Cash bail systems result in individuals without resources spending time in jail without even being convicted. New polling shows - when people understand the problems with these practices, they support reforms!

Get facts and resources from Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI) to improve outcomes with better bail and pretrial solutions. Adopt smarter methods, learn about risk assessment and fairer, less costly pretrial options that honor and protect all people.

04/30/2018

Darryl Hunt used to talk about finding the funding to get a bus full of exonorees to travel around the country. He'd call them "The Darryl Hunt Freedom Fighters," and they would work hard to support policy changes that help protect exonorees from instances such as befell Henry McCollum and Leon Brown.

Thank you to the people who are trying to hold these individuals accountable.

The North Carolina State Bar probes Patrick Megaro.

04/30/2018

Exciting introduction episode to one of the cases Wake Forest University School of Law Innocence and Justice Clinic is currently working on.

April 23, 2018 / The team investigates the case of Pam Lanier, who was convicted of murdering her husband Dorian largely due to an odd rule of evidence known as the Doctrine of Chances. Episode sc...

04/29/2018

Darryl Hunt always said the key to breaking the cycle of incarceration was education.

As Reentry Week comes to a close, we must pay tribute to the important work being accomplished toward helping juvenile justice-involved children return to their communities following assignment to out-of-home residential placements in Juvenile Justice facilities. Two exciting initiatives related to....

02/24/2018

2017 in North Carolina finally saw Raise The Age pass after almost a decade of trial and error. Legislators finally were able to piece…

04/28/2017

Rest In Peace, Rest in Power dear friend.

Darryl Hunt spent 19 years in prison for a murder and r**e he did not commit before DNA evidence proved his innocence in 2004. Last year, he was found slumped at the wheel of a pickup truck, dead at 51 from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. What happened?

03/13/2017

A very heartfelt thanks to the Trustees and Staff of Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for this fitting and wonderful way to honor Darryl Hunt's legacy.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has established a $100,000 endowed scholarship fund in honor of the late Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly 19 years in prison before he was exonerated

11/15/2016

Three days into his carjacking trial in 2005, James Ochoa faced a daunting choice: Risk spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted by a California jury or plead guilty and be released in two years.