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Both victims eventually identified Arthur Whitfield as the assailant. In 1982, he was convicted of one of the crimes and pled guilty to the second in order to receive a lighter sentence and have some of the charges dropped. DNA testing in 2004 proved that he was innocent of both crimes. The first victim was accosted as she got out of her car.
As of January 2022, 375 people previously convicted of serious crimes in the United States had been exonerated by DNA testing since 1989, 21 of whom had been sentenced to death. [ 13 ] [ 49 ] Almost all (99%) of the wrongful convictions involved male defendants [ 50 ] [ 51 ] with minority groups making up approximately 70% (61% African American ...
Kandel was found beaten to death in a cornfield west of her home in Carol Stream, Illinois, on September 12, 1972, and prosecutors used circumstantial evidence - including bite marks - to convict 25-year-old Richard Milone for her murder. [33] Milone was sentenced to an 80-to-175-year prison sentence, but maintained that he was innocent.
He was charged with criminal sexual assault and solicitation of murder for hire, according to the Chicago Tribune. Velazquez was found with a strap wrapped around his neck. Jail or Agency: Lake County Jail; State: Illinois; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 7/13/2016; Age at death: 34; Sources: www.chicagotribune.com
Police initiated a no-knock raid, shooting and killing one of the couple's dogs. In the ensuing shoot-out, both Tuttle and Nicholas were killed and five police officers were injured. Aside from a small amount of marijuana and cocaine, no drugs were found in the home. [48] 24 January 2019: Nathaniel Hendren 28 February 2020 (pleaded guilty)
Both were retried despite public pressure on the DuPage County State's Attorney's office to investigate the Dugan confession. Cruz was convicted in his second trial in February 1990. [2] The second trial of Hernandez ended in a hung jury in May 1990. [2] He was convicted at his third trial, and was sentenced to 80 years in prison on May 17 ...
Cruz was pardoned in 2002 by the Illinois governor after having served more than 12 years in custody on death row. Another man, Brian Dugan, already convicted of rape and murder of both a child and an adult woman in separate events, had claimed in 1985 to have committed the crime. His DNA was later found to match that from the Nicarico crime scene.
Attorney Mark P. Sutter issued a statement Thursday on behalf of Shannon declaring him “innocent of these charges” and vowing that he will take his case to trial. If convicted of rape, Shannon ...