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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.
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 ...
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 were males, [50] [51] with minority groups constituting approximately 70% (61% African American and 8% Latino).
A 2017 report highlighted that although African Americans form 13% of the American population, they accounted for 47% of the exonerations on the Registry. To which must be added most of the 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in "group exonerations". [2]
Maurice Hastings, who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder he did not commit, appears at a court in Los Angeles where a judge officially found him to be factually innocent on ...
We quickly agreed that each of us would write five stories of real-life cases in which innocent defendants, much to their shock and disbelief, were found guilty of crimes they had absolutely ...
10-year-old Louise Bell was abducted from her home in Hackham West in January 1983. Raymond Geesing, a man serving time in prison for an unrelated crime, was convicted of her murder after supposedly confessing to jailhouse informers, but his conviction was quashed 17 months later after the witnesses were deemed to be unreliable. [2]
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 ...