Velazquez had long maintained his innocence in the 1998 shooting death of a former police officer. NBC's "Dateline" ...

After over two decades behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Jon-Adrian Velazquez was on Monday exonerated following a motion to vacate his wrongful conviction. He told NBC News, “For the first ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez was was cleared of a 1998 murder conviction that landed him in prison for 23 years, seven months, and ...

A man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he didn't commit is officially a free man. Jon-Adrian ...

According to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg's office, two individuals committed a robbery of a gambling parlor on ...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, 48, walked into Manhattan Supreme Court already a free man, his sentence having been commuted in ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez, who starred in the movie "Sing Sing," fought for decades to be freed after his wrongful conviction in ...

Newly available DNA evidence failed to link Velazquez to the killing of former New York police officer Albert Ward in 1998.

Sing Sing actor Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez is now an exonerated man. The formerly incarcerated actor was cleared in 1998 ...

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent close to 27 years caught in the criminal justice system — nearly all of it behind bars in New York's Sing Sing prison, convicted of a murder he insisted he did not commit.