Slow to grab hold and knotty when it does, Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal, opening tonight and starring Robert Downey Jr. in a ...
Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who recently appeared in the movie Sing Sing, had his conviction overturned Monday, after being ...
After leaving prison, Velazquez has continued to fight for his own exoneration and criminal justice reform. He met in 2022 with President Biden, who apologized for his wrongful conviction. In the A24 ...
Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, 48, walked into Manhattan Supreme Court already a free man, his sentence having been commuted in ...
Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez was wrongly convicted of murder in the ’90s, the Manhattan district attorney said Monday.
A man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he didn't commit is officially a free man. Jon-Adrian ...
Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent close to 27 years caught in the criminal justice system — nearly all of it behind bars in New York ...
MSNBC will tell the story of 'Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez and five other wrongfully convicted men in a docuseries titled ...
A criminal justice reform advocate featured in the movie "Sing Sing" has been exonerated in the 1998 killing of a retired New York City police officer.
Sing Sing actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has finally been exonerated after more than 23 years of being wrongfully imprisoned ...
According to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg's office, two individuals committed a robbery of a gambling parlor on ...