The documentary will focus on eight people’s fight for justice (Pictured from left Chester Hollman III, Kenneth Wyniemko and Alfred Brown) (Picture: FOX/ABC/YouTube)

A new true-crime documentary which looks at eight people’s fight for justice after being charged with crimes they didn’t commit is coming to Netflix next month.

The nine-episode series titled The Innocence Files will be available to stream on April 15.

The Innocence Files will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at how ‘criminals’ can be wrongly convicted.

It will focus on three different causes of wrongful convictions including prosecutorial misconduct, eyewitness misidentification and the use of unreliable or unvalidated forensic science.


Split into three parts — The Evidence, The Witness and The Prosecution — the series follows the individual stories of people working to be exonerated, including Chester Hollman III, Kenneth Wyniemko, Alfred Dewayne Brown, Thomas Haynesworth, Levon Brooks, Kennedy Brewer, Keith Harward, and Franky Carrillo.



More than 2,500 wrongfully convicted people have been exonerated in the U.S. over the past three decades. And there are many more who are still hoping to clear their names.

Chester Hollman III was accused of theft and shooting someone to death (Picture: ABC)

The Innocence Files takes an in-depth look at why the journey to justice can be so long and difficult.

Kenneth Wyniemko was accused of armed robbery (Picture: YouTube/WMU Cooley Law School)

The series features Innocence Project co-founders and special counsel Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, and other experts as they fight for justice on behalf of various wrongfully convicted people.

‘We are thrilled to be part of the groundbreaking Netflix series, The Innocence Files,’ Scheck and Neufeld explained in a joint statement.

‘This is truly important television. Each episode reveals — step by step — how the American criminal justice system gets it wrong.’

‘Countless innocent people endure unspeakable suffering in maximum security prisons and death row for crimes they didn’t commit. These miscarriages of justice extend a circle of pain and trauma that embraces families, communities, and even victims of crime. We must do better,’ they added to the Innocent Project.

The entire nine-episode season will debut on Netflix on April 15.

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