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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 ...
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)
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
Juan A. Rivera Jr. (born October 31, 1972) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan, Illinois. He was convicted twice on the basis of a confession that he said was coerced. No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene.
He was convicted at his third trial, and was sentenced to 80 years in prison on May 17, 1991. [2] Meanwhile, Cruz had appealed. In December 1992, his second conviction was upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court, [2] but in May 1993 the court agreed to rehear the case. On July 14, 1994, Cruz was granted a third trial.
Black people in the U.S. are seven times more likely to be falsely convicted of a serious crime like ... which found that Black people make up less than 14% of the U.S. population but account for ...
The Illinois Innocence Project, a member of the national Innocence Project network, is a non-profit legal organization that works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The national Innocence Project was founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld in 1992.