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

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

Velazquez had spent over two decades in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of the 1998 murder of a retired NYPD ...

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

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

Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent years in Sing Sing for a shooting he did not commit. Along the way, he helped others seek their freedom and became the face of a movement. By Corey Kilgannon Jon-Adrian ...

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

Jon-Adrian 'JJ' Velazquez has been officially exonerated for the murder of retired NYPD officer Albert Ward, after nearly 24 ...

After spending 23 years in prison, Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez was formally exonerated of the murder of a retired NYPD ...

A 48-year-old Manhattan man who spent half his life behind bars for the shooting death of a retired NYPD detective was exoneranted Monday thanks to a bit of DNA taken from a slip of paper.

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