Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent close to 27 years caught in the criminal justice system — nearly all of it behind bars in New York ...
Velazquez had long maintained his innocence in the 1998 shooting death of a former police officer. NBC's "Dateline" ...
A Manhattan judge vacated Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez's wrongful conviction in the killing of a retired New York City police ...
Sing Sing' was filmed in the same prison where the actor spent more than 20 years of his life wrongfully incarcerated.
Velasquez was released from prison in 2021 and began filming for the A24 film based on the prison of the same name.
Jon-Adrian 'JJ' Velazquez has been exonerated after spending nearly 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
MSNBC has announced a new docuseries titled “The Sing Sing Chronicles,” a four-episode investigative piece that will tell the ...
Sing Sing' actor JJ Velazquez was wrongly convicted of murder in the '90s, the Manhattan district attorney said Monday.
Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent years in Sing Sing for ... went on at the City Council, which approved bills on jaywalking and rats. Lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York filed a 25-page memo ...
A Pennsylvania man has served 43 years of a life sentence for murder, pursuing appeals without success. Now, he's hoping for ...
Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, 48, walked into Manhattan Supreme Court already a free man, his sentence having been commuted in ...