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Born in Charles County, Maryland into a Roman Catholic family, Samuel Mudd was the fourth of 10 children of Henry Lowe and Sarah Ann (Reeves) Mudd. He grew up on Oak Hill, his father's tobacco plantation of several hundred acres, which was worked by 89 slaves and was located about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Washington, D.C. [1] [2]: 161
The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals that have entered an Alford plea.An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine) [4] [5] [6] in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.
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.
Dr. Merideth Norris, 53, of Kennebunk, Maine, was found guilty in federal court Friday of distributing the opioids at her practice. Maine doctor convicted on multiple counts of illegally ...
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is being asked to let prosecutors use a controversial confession as evidence in a murder case featured in the Netflix series, "The Innocent Man."
Willie McCovey, professional baseball player, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1995 and received two years probation and a $5,000 fine. Pardoned on January 17, 2017. [43] Ian Schrager, former co-owner of the famed dance club Studio 54, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in 1979 and received three and a half years in prison and a $20,000 fine ...
Roger Mudd, the CBS newsman whose political reporting and substitute anchoring on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite made him a familiar and respected face to tens of millions of Americans ...
The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd is a 1980 historical drama film directed by Paul Wendkos. Based on a true story, it revolves around the 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln . Dennis Weaver plays the lead role of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd , who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the killing.