After his division was destroyed near Brest, Belarus during the German invasion of the Soviet Union (see also Defense of Brest Fortress), in 1941 he was court-martialed and condemned to death but the sentence was canceled.
Another high-profile case involved the exoneration of George Whitmore, Jr. in 1963 after his confession regarding the murder of two women in their upper east side Manhattan apartment was found to be false.
Gauger gained national attention following his exoneration, and was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Connie Chung Tonight, A&E Investigative Reports, and Court TV.
George, along with his wife Terry, is a strong supporter of the exoneration of Louis Riel and has been quoted on his support of the Private member's bill introduced by Pat Martin in the House of Commons.
The The Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin, commonly known as the Kaufman Report, was created to address the wrongful conviction in 1992 of Guy Paul Morin for murdering Christine Jessop on October 3, 1984 for which he was exonerated by DNA evidence on January 23, 1995.
The National Registry of Exonerations is a joint project of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law to provide detailed information about known exonerations in the United States since 1989.
At Off Center Media, Sarah has produced and directed a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival (she was instrumental in winning exoneration for 46 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas); and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.
Terry, along with her husband George, is a strong supporter of the exoneration of Louis Riel and has been quoted on her support of the Private member's bill introduced by Pat Martin in the House of Commons.