The Law Journal covers the launch of NEWIRTH LINEHAN and highlights what sets the firm apart.

Charlie and CRU colleague, Celia Gordon, provide insight into Brooklyn CRU processes and discuss successes and challenges in the unit’s efforts to correct past wrongs.

Karen wins exoneration for Jeffrey Koonce in 40-year-old wrongful conviction.

Judge singled out in multiple CRU exonerations during Charlie’s tenure is targeted for removal by activists, including Karen.

Karen and co-counsel, Oscar Michelin, win historic settlement after re-trial and acquittal in Andrew Krivak rape and murder case.

Under Charlie’s leadership, Brooklyn CRU secures the exoneration of a man who spent 16 years in prison despite video evidence in the case file proving his innocence.

Charlie sits for an interview with The City and discusses his efforts to reduce delay in the Brooklyn CRU.

Karen prods federal and state prosecutors to re-examine cases handled by NYPD fingerprint unit personnel later found to have been involved in fingerprint misidentifications.

Karen takes prosecutors to task for failing at their critical responsibility to keep sham arrests from proceeding.

Sheldon Thomas is exonerated 18 years after being wrongly convicted; Karen supported his attorneys in their efforts for more than a decade.

Sheldon Thomas’s conviction is vacated by the CRU led by Charlie after Thomas spent 18 years in prison as the result of a flawed photo identification.

Karen and co-counsel Oscar Michelen win acquittal for client Andy Krivak following a seven week retrial for a 1996 rape and murder he did not commit.  

Rolling Stone details the failed investigation and misconduct that led to the wrongful conviction of two teens, Andy Krivak and Anthony DiPippo, in 1997 – and kept them imprisoned for decades.  

Charlie leads the Brooklyn DA’s successful effort to vacate nearly 400 convictions tied to dirty cops.

Brooklyn District Attorney, Eric Gonzalez, recruits Charlie to lead the Brooklyn CRU, the nation’s “gold-standard” unit tasked with reviewing allegations of wrongful conviction.

Karen spearheads effort by public interest legal organizations to vacate convictions tied to corrupt police.  In response to these efforts and over the next three years, more than a thousand convictions will be vacated by the district attorneys of Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Westchester.

Rolling Stone breaks down the wrongful conviction of Andy Krivak in advance of his retrial that will lead to Karen and co-counsel, Oscar Michelin, securing Krivak’s  acquittal of the rape and murder of Josette Wright.

Karen weighs in on bombshell revelations about egregious wrongdoing in the Mount Vernon Police Department.

Karen lends her expertise to this New York Times piece on the myriad problems associated with eyewitness identifications.

Karen is an author of the authoritative legal textbook on eyewitness testimony in civil and criminal trials.

Karen’s articles on the law and science of eyewitness identification.

Karen is an author of an essential guide for attorneys litigating cases involving miscarriages of justice. 

Charlie and QRI colleague, Tyler Maroney, propose a process to help prevent future wrongful convictions.

Karen and colleagues Barry Scheck and Rebecca Brown weigh in on the myriad problems inherent in eyewitness identifications.