Velazquez appeared as himself in “Sing Sing,” a film starring other former inmates and actor Colman Domingo as an incarcerated man who helps lead a theater program at the nearly two century ...

Velazquez portrayed one of the inmates in the prison theater troupe in the A24 film. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, who recently appeared in the movie Sing Sing ...

Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, an actor who spent more than 23 years in prison for murder, was formally exonerated by a New York judge Monday more than a decade after a “Dateline” special ...

NEW YORK CITY — A New York judge on Monday vacated the murder conviction of actor Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez based on newly discovered DNA evidence. Velazquez had served more than 23 years in ...

Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez has finally been vindicated. The Sing Sing actor and formerly wrongfully incarcerated inmate at Sing Sing correctional facility—where the movie, also starring Colman ...

Velazquez had long maintained his innocence in the 1998 shooting death of a former police officer. NBC's "Dateline" ...

Manhattan Dist. Atty. Alvin Bragg announced Monday that his office would vacate actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez’s murder conviction, citing “newly discovered DNA evidence” that ...

On Monday morning, a Manhattan judge cleared Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez of charges stemming from a 1998 case, in which he was accused of killing a retired New York police officer, according to ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. On Monday (September 30), Velazquez, 48, who was convicted of murdering a retired New York police officer in 1998, was formally cleared of charges by ...

After serving nearly 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, “Sing Sing” actor Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has been exonerated of his wrongful murder conviction. The 48-year-old ...

Colman Domingo’s Sing Sing co-star Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez has been officially exonerated after serving nearly 24 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction. On Monday (September 30 ...