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Angel Gonzalez was exonerated after serving more than 20 years of a 55-year sentence for rape and kidnapping, but was not freed immediately because he had been sentenced to three more years for breaking a sink while serving the original sentence for his wrongful conviction. [26] In light of his wrongful conviction being overturned, Immigration ...
Brian Beals, wrongfully imprisoned for 35 years after being convicted of allegedly killing a 6-year-old in Chicago in 1988, greets his sister Pattilyn and his niece Tamiko Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023 ...
Illinois Innocence Project. In 2001, Clutter co-founded the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Clutter co-taught the university's first class on wrongful convictions. [6] He co-wrote the Bloodworth Grant the awarded $687 thousand to establish a post-conviction program in Illinois to prove actual innocence.
In 2023, their attempted murder convictions were overturned and the University of Akron granted them full scholarships to earn their college degrees. [76] Leonard Mack was exonerated of rape and gun charges after 47 years due to DNA evidence. [77] [78] Mack's wrongful conviction was the longest to be vacated to due advanced DNA testing. [79]
A wrongful conviction is never the work of a lone bad apple. Like a plane crash, a wrongful conviction is a system failure, an "organizational accident." Small errors, none of them sufficient to ...
In eyewitness identification, in criminal law, evidence is received from a witness "who has actually seen an event and can so testify in court". [1]The Innocence Project states that "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."
CHICAGO (Reuters) -The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett, the one-time star of the TV drama "Empire", for staging a hate crime against himself ...
The Ford Heights Four (Verneal Jimerson, [1] Dennis Williams, [2] Kenneth Adams, [3] and Willie Rainge) were formerly imprisoned convicts, who were falsely accused and convicted of the double murder of Lawrence Lionberg and Carol Schmal in Ford Heights, Illinois, and later exonerated. Jimerson and Williams were sentenced to death, Adams to 75 ...