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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 new trial again found Johnston innocent, but in 2016 the Franklin County Court of Appeals again overturned the right to seek compensation, citing Mansaray. [2] [3] [1] The Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear Johnston's appeal the following year. [1] In 2017 DeWine opposed legislation that would allow Johnston to seek damages from the state. [1]
Gary Gauger (born January 21, 1952) is a formerly imprisoned convict, who was falsely accused and convicted of the murders of his parents, Morris and Ruth Gauger, and later exonerated. Following the murder on April 8, 1993, Gauger ultimately spent nearly two years in prison and 9 months on death row before being released in March 1996.
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 ...
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 ...
Richard Alexander is an Indiana man who was wrongfully convicted of a 1996 rape and exonerated in 2001 by DNA evidence. Years later, on September 17, 2020, Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. [1] Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander for domestic violence.
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 ...