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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.
Jessica Van Dyke (left), the lead counsel and executive director of the Tennessee Innocence Project, and Shelby County Assistant District Attorney Robert Gowen (right), deputy chief of the justice ...
The Innocence Project was established in the wake of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Senate, in conjunction with Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, which claimed that incorrect identification by eyewitnesses was a factor in over 70% of wrongful convictions.
Forbes saw a group of people near a van and assumed it was a drug deal. After telling the men to leave, one man, Dan Davis, argued with Forbes. The two got into a fight and Forbes shot Davis three times. Forbes was charged with murder but convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released in 2000. [161] 5 November 1992
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 ...
This list includes American politicians at the state and local levels who have been convicted of felony crimes committed while in office by decade; this list encompasses the 2020s. At the bottom of the article are links to related articles which deal with politicians who are involved in federal scandals (political and sexual), as well as ...
State Senator Paul Fischer (R), pled guilty to misuse of state funds and taking illegal campaign contributions from an oil-field construction company. (1989) [3] [4] State Senator George Hohman (D) State Senator, bribed to obtain a water-bomber aircraft for the state. Sentenced to 3 years and fined $30,000.
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 ...