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The Ford Heights Four. The Ford Heights Four (Verneal Jimerson, [1] Dennis Williams, [2] Kenneth Adams, [3] and Willie Rainge) were formerly imprisoned convicts, who were falsely accused and convicted of the double murder of Lawrence Lionberg and Carol Schmal in Ford Heights, Illinois, and later exonerated. Jimerson and Williams were sentenced ...
The Cook County sheriff confirmed to FOX 32 that a body was found near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue and 15th Place in Ford Heights around 1:25 p.m. The identity of the body is not known at ...
Ford Heights Four [ edit ] In the late 1990s, Taylor joined Wyoming attorney Jerry Spence , now Federal Judge Matthew Kennelly , and former Northwestern School of Law professor Lawrence Marshall to obtain a $36-million-dollar wrongful conviction settlement for four men, who each served more than a decade behind bars for the 1978 murder of a ...
The Ford Heights Four (two of which were sentenced to death) were convicted of the 1978 murder of an engaged couple. DNA tests exonerated them in 1996 and identified the true killers who confessed and were convicted. [5]
Ford Heights (formerly East Chicago Heights) is a village and a suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,813 at the 2020 census. [2] Many of the area’s first settlers were African American and since its incorporation in 1949 the village has remained predominantly Black.
A Cook County judge found Ford Heights Mayor Charles Griffin guilty of one count of theft or unauthorized control of government property exceeding $10,000 but less than $100,000, as well as two ...
Sullivan graduated from Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco, California, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.In 1996, Sullivan and two fellow university seniors expanded a class assignment [3] that ultimately freed four men (Ford Heights Four) who had been wrongfully convicted of a 1978 murder in Chicago's South Side; two were death-row inmates. [4]
In 1982, after two of the Ford Heights Four won new trials, prosecutors offered to release Gray in exchange for her testimony against the two men. Gray accepted the offer and was released in 1987. Following the exoneration of the Ford Heights Four, Gray's conviction was overturned, and in 2002, the Governor issued her a pardon. [102] Aug 31, 1978