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  2. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Life imprisonment Two months Yes Butler and Yelder were sentenced to life imprisonment after Butler's daughter testified that they had killed Yelder's niece, Topsy Warren, and dismembered her body. However, less than a week later the local sheriff found Topsy Warren alive. Butler and Yelder were officially pardoned and released in June. [40]

  3. Holt v. Sarver - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas cases. In 1969 in Holt v. Sarver I, 300 F. Supp. 825 (E.D. Ark.), Judge J. Smith Henley ruled several aspects of Arkansas' existing prison system unconstitutional. He issued guidelines to follow for correcting the problems, and ordered administrators to report on the progress of the implementation of these guidelines. [3] In 1970 in ...

  4. Murder of Jersey Bridgeman - Wikipedia

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    Jersey Dianne Bridgeman (November 14, 2006 – November 20, 2012) was born and grew up in the city of Bentonville, Arkansas, widely known as the seat of the American Walmart retail chain. Following her parents’ divorce, her father and stepmother, David and Jana Bridgeman, began to chain her to a dresser in an apparent bid to stop her from ...

  5. Miller v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The decision of the court was based on two consolidated cases, Jackson v.Hobbs, No. 10-9647, and Miller v.Alabama, No. 10-9646. [5] The Los Angeles Times wrote: "In one case that came before the court, Kuntrell Jackson was 14 in November 18, 1999 when he and two other teenagers went to a video store in Arkansas planning to rob it. [6]

  6. False imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    False imprisonment or unlawful imprisonment occurs when a person intentionally restricts another person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission. [1] Actual physical restraint is not necessary for false imprisonment to occur. A false imprisonment claim may be made based upon ...

  7. List of long-term false imprisonment cases - Wikipedia

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    Cases involving adults. Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years. [49] Marvin L. Maple, US, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier. Colleen Stan, US, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984. Alexander Komin, Vyatskiye Polyany, Kirov Oblast, Russia.

  8. 1998 Westside Middle School shooting - Wikipedia

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    The Westside Middle School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [ 1 ] 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden opened fire on the school, shooting and killing five people [ a ] with multiple weapons, and ...

  9. Arkansas Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC), formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction, is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions, the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) and the Arkansas Division of Community Corrections (DCC ...