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The Illinois Innocence Project, a member of the national Innocence Project network, is a non-profit legal organization that works to exonerate wrongfully convicted people and reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. The national Innocence Project was founded by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld in 1992.
They were convicted and executed via the electric chair in 1915 for the murder in 1913 of 74-year-old John Q. Lewis. The Griffin brothers were convicted based on the accusations of another black man, John "Monk" Stevenson, who was known to be a small-time thief.
Sells told Fanning about a murder in Illinois in which he had killed a child and was startled by the mother who came into the room. Two years later, Texas Ranger John Allen provided an affidavit in support of Rea's petition for a new trial. The Illinois Innocence Project had corroborated the serial killer's confession.
Polish-American woman murdered after questioning killer's sexuality, drew attention as alleged hate crime against Christian heterosexual: Brice Hunter: Chicago: 2004-04-19: Former NFL wide receiver shot outside his apartment: Murder of Riley Fox: Wilmington: 2004-06-06: Three-year old girl murder, father was accused but then cleared by DNA evidence
He was charged with criminal sexual assault and solicitation of murder for hire, according to the Chicago Tribune. Velazquez was found with a strap wrapped around his neck. Jail or Agency: Lake County Jail; State: Illinois; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 7/13/2016; Age at death: 34; Sources: www.chicagotribune.com
The Jeanine Nicarico murder case was a complex and influential homicide investigation and prosecution in which two men, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez, both Latinos, were wrongfully convicted of abduction, rape and murder in 1985 in DuPage County, Illinois. They were both sentenced to death.
After Simon was finally exonerated, in 2014 he filed a civil federal civil rights suit against the Northwestern University Innocence Project, saying people associated with it had deceived and coerced him into a false confession to the murders of Hilliard and Green, which resulted in his being convicted of murder and serving 15 years in prison ...
Anthony Porter, Illinois. Convicted 1983. [160] Ron Williamson, Oklahoma. Convicted 1988. Along with Gregory R. Wilhoit, Williamson later became the inspiration for and subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. [132] Ronald Jones, Illinois. Convicted 1989. Released May 17, 1999. [161 ...