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Claimed he was 200 km away in Montreal at the time of the robbery. The Quebec Police Commission concluded in 1989 that Hinse was the victim of "a botched investigation". Acquitted by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1997 and paid C$13.1 million by the Quebec and Federal Governments—the largest wrongful conviction award in Canadian history.
The prosecution appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the state's highest court rejected the appeal. The prosecution dismissed the charges on October 11, 2018. Jones' nearly 45 years in prison was the second longest time spent incarcerated after a known wrongful conviction in U.S. history at the time. [79] June 3, 1973: Chol Soo Lee: Murder
These kinds of eyewitness errors are common in wrongful conviction cases. The Innocence Projects says that eyewitness misidentification played a role in 69% of convictions overturned by DNA evidence.
His wrongful conviction was challenged and a new trial was ordered in June 2015. He was acquitted on November 6, 2015. [19] [20] [21] Livingston County. Mark Woodworth was convicted of the 1990 home invasion, murder and attempted murder of his parents' business partners, the Robertsons. In 2014, after two trials and two reversal, a judge ruled ...
NEW YORK (AP) - From the day of his 1989 arrest in a deadly New York City shooting, Jonathan Fleming said he had been more than 1,000 miles away, on a vacation at Disney World. Despite having ...
Two Washington, D.C., brothers who spent decades in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 1984 murder before they were eventually freed, are seeking a presidential pardon.
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.
MSNBC has announced a new docuseries titled “The Sing Sing Chronicles,” a four-episode investigative piece that will tell the story of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, an actor from A24’s ...