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At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were overturned on appeal. Two convicts died in prison. [113] [114] [115] A documentary titled Witch Hunt was produced and released in 2007. MSNBC also did a documentary on John Stoll and the Kern County cases.
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States.The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer(s) was convicted, the name of the officer(s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
The shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, two Black American individuals, occurred in East Cleveland, Ohio on November 29, 2012, at the conclusion of a 22-minute police chase which started in downtown Cleveland, when police erroneously claimed shots were fired at them as Russell and Williams drove by a squad car; the cause of the shots was their vehicle's exhaust pipe ...
A man who killed an innocent bystander during a gang-related shooting in Fort Worth in 2021 has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty on Oct. 18, according to court records.
Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by 6 votes to 3 that a claim of actual innocence does not entitle a petitioner to federal habeas corpus relief by way of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a 35-year prison sentence to one of the two men convicted in the 2019 murder-for-hire plot to kill Alex Vega, a car designer who has customized high-end ...
The shooting happened about 2:30 a.m.. Police believe Randell was one of two men who fled from police several hours earlier after being stopped while driving a reported-stolen car. During the search of the area, Randell sped by police on a motorcycle and failed to stop when pursued by police.
The night of the shooting, an LAPD vice unit broadcast over the police radio that the "occupants of a silver Cadillac wearing ski masks [were] in a possible dispute with the driver of another ...