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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his first nonfiction title. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
Ron Williamson mugshot. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter.
The DNA matched a man named Gregory Allen, who bore a striking resemblance to Avery. Avery was exonerated and released. As a result of the case, Wisconsin made changes to their eyewitness protocol. Avery also filed a civil suit for wrongful conviction against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, and some county officials, seeking $36 million in damages.
Ada County has reached a settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a Kuna man who was wrongfully detained for hours, and the Sheriff’s Office will use the case to implement new training.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overturned a lower court decision that said prosecutors and police withheld evidence that could exonerate Tommy Ward of the 1984 murder of Donna Denice ...
His wrongful murder conviction was vacated upon request of Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna, after evidence from a police lineup report supporting Simmons' innocence — and ...
The Innocent Man is an American true crime documentary television series based on John Grisham's 2006 book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. [1] [2] The six-episode first season debuted on Netflix on December 14, 2018.
For more than twenty-five years, I have reported on wrongful convictions, and I have followed the efforts of those newly-freed to return to the lives they left behind. ... But in most cases, those ...