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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.
[191] [192] [193] West Virginia paid out a total of $6.5 million to settle lawsuits by people who had been wrongfully convicted due to Zain. [194] [195] [196] 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.
Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] On June 19, 2024, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals determined that he was actually innocent, citing a litany of prosecutorial misconduct and errors.
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 ...
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 ...
L.A. County will pay $27 million to settle shooting, wrongful conviction lawsuits against Sheriff's Department They were wrongfully convicted as teens. Now L.A. County is paying them $24 million
Controversy arose in 1998 when convicted killer Edward Harold Bell confessed to both murders. Bell's confession – and corroborating statements from both law enforcement and prosecutors that Self had been coerced into a false confession – led many to believe that Self had been wrongfully convicted. [3] Self died in prison in 2000. [4]