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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 ...
A man who spent nearly 30 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery and rape has been declared innocent and freed, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday. DNA testing helped exonerate ...
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
Theis was held on a parole detainer, awaiting sentencing on convictions of first-degree home invasion, larceny of vehicles and other crimes, according to the Morning Sun. A bedsheet was reportedly used. Jail or Agency: Isabella County Jail; State: Michigan; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 5/31/2016; Age at death: 36; Sources ...
Marco Contreras was a free man once a judge in Southern California ruled him innocent of attempted murder of Jose Garcia n in 1996. Innocent man freed 20 years after being wrongfully convicted of ...
The true perpetrator of the B.B. King's robbery has never been charged with the crime. Now found innocent, Whitehead said he is ready to move forward and return to what he was doing before he was ...
Brian James Dugan (born September 23, 1956) [3] is an American convicted rapist and serial killer active between 1983 and 1985 in Chicago's western suburbs. He was known for having informally confessed in 1985 to the February 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville, Illinois, which was a highly publicized case.