Entries tagged with “Robert Melock”

Aug 19, 2025

Former Illinois Death-Sentenced Prisoner Robert Melock’s Charges Dismissed, Court Acknowledges Innocence

After spend­ing more than three decades behind bars for a crime he did not com­mit, Robert Melock was issued a Certificate of Innocence (COI), with a court for­mal­ly clear­ing his name and order­ing his record expunged. On April 21, 2025, the Circuit Court of the 19^th Judicial Circuit issued Mr. Melock the cer­tifi­cate fol­low­ing his December 2023 release from prison after 34 years of incar­cer­a­tion. His case is emblem­at­ic of the many prob­lems known to result in wrongful death…