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Michael Morton (born August 12, 1954) is an American who was wrongfully convicted in 1987 in a Williamson County, Texas court of the 1986 murder of his wife Christine Morton. He spent nearly 25 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence which supported his claim of innocence and pointed to the crime being committed by another ...
A wrongfully convicted Texas man who spent 34 years in prison for a killing in the 1980s was exonerated Thursday, saying that while he couldn’t get those years back, he was happy and moving forward.
[188] [189] [190] West Virginia paid out a total of $6.5 million to settle lawsuits by people who had been wrongfully convicted due to Zain. [191] [192] [193] Feb 11, 1987: Tim Masters: Murder: Fort Collins, Colorado: Life in prison 9 years Yes Peggy Hettrick was murdered in 1987. Masters was a sophomore in high school at the time of the murder.
Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018) [1] was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas when the 16-year-old student Fergeson was a visiting athlete from ...
On Monday, a Texas court set an October execution date for a man named Robert Roberson, despite overwhelming evidence that he was wrongly convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2003 ...
"In post-convictions, it's all about checking out and reinvestigating the case," he said. Kelley was wrongfully convicted in 2014 when a Williamson County jury found him guilty of super aggravated ...
Perry Cobb and Darby J. Tillis. Illinois. Convicted 1979. The primary witness in the case, Phyllis Santini, was determined to be an accomplice of the actual killer by the Illinois Supreme Court. The Judge in the case, Thomas J. Maloney, was later convicted of accepting bribes. [117] [118] Juan Ramos, Florida. Convicted 1983.
Graves was awarded $1.4 million by the State of Texas in June 2011 for his wrongful conviction. [49] Dallas County. Randall Dale Adams was sentenced to death for of the 1976 murder of a police officer. He was exonerated in 1989. Cornelius Dupree was convicted of aggravated robbery, which was alleged to have been committed during a rape in 1979 ...