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Philip Vance’s Postconviction Filing Kicked Back by Prosecutors to Wait For CRU Report

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

Philip Vance is serving a life sentence for a 2002 murder in South St. Paul during a robbery of Sabreen’s Supermarket, but his supporters have long believed this was a false charge after hearing Vance’s pleas of innocence. After waiting more than three years since…

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Community Demands Exoneration for Philip Vance on 22nd Anniversary of Murder

January 8, 2025January 27, 2025

South Saint Paul, MN — “I just want the world to know that I am innocent,” said Philip Vance from a prison phone. Volunteers with the Free Philip Vance team braved frigid temperatures to hold a press conference on the 22nd anniversary of the robbery-turned-murder…

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Questions Surround FBI Informant Charged With Stabbing Convicted Cop Derek Chauvin

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023

Tucson, AZ — Federal inmate and former FBI informant, John Turscak, was charged last week with attempted murder by federal prosecutors for the Black Friday stabbing incident of fellow prisoner Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted for the 2020 murder of…

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Limited Funds Stunt Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit — Families Want Expediency

July 6, 2023July 15, 2023

Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) has received nearly 1,000 applications of wrongful incarceration to review but with only a couple paid staff and four grants in two years, impacted families complain about lengthy waits while the CRU say they lack capacity and funding. Created to…

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Media: Icebreaker Pt 5 – ICE/HSI Undercover Operations & Otherwise Illegal Activities

By Unicorn Riot September 4, 2018 - 8:02 pmMarch 19, 2024 Permalink to video

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