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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. [117] [118] [119] A documentary titled Witch Hunt was produced and released in 2007. MSNBC also did a documentary on John Stoll and the Kern County cases.
Three officers were working as security at a high school football game when gunfire broke out. The officers fired at a vehicle they wrongly believed to be involved in the shooting, striking four people in a crowd leaving the game, including 8-year-old Fanta Bility. Ballistic testing could not determine which shot killed Bility.
Short video by Amnesty International Anthony Charles Graves (born August 29, 1965) is the 138th exonerated death row inmate in America. [ 1 ] With no record of violence, [ 1 ] he was arrested at 26 years old, wrongfully convicted, and incarcerated for 18 years before finally being exonerated and released. [ 2 ]
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Randall Dale Adams (December 17, 1948 – October 30, 2010 [1]) was an American man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. [2] [3] His conviction was overturned in 1989.
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 ...
A Texas police department is apologizing and after officers pulled over what they wrongly suspected was a stolen car and then held an innocent Black family at gunpoint. The driver of the car, her ...
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.