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Michael Morton (born August 12, 1954) is an American who was wrongfully convicted in 1987 in a Williamson County, Texas court of the 1986 murder of his wife Christine Morton. He spent nearly 25 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence which supported his claim of innocence and pointed to the crime being committed by another ...
Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is an American former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] On June 19, 2024, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals determined that he was actually innocent, citing a litany of prosecutorial misconduct and errors.
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 wrongfully convicted Texas man who spent 34 years in prison for a killing in the 1980s was exonerated Thursday, saying that while he couldn’t get those years back, he was happy and moving forward.
Self's trial began on May 15, 1973, and concluded on September 18, 1974. He was convicted of the first-degree murder of Shaw and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was not convicted of Johnson's murder. [8] An October 9, 1974, appeal of the case was denied. [9]
damning evidence in the case against matthew edgar As the party at Ozan's was winding down, Edgar says he called it a night. J.P. MACDONOUGH (hospital bodycam): Oh so, you left Bobby's.
The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded the 3,000th exoneration of a wrongly convicted defendant since 1989: the case of Reynaldo Munoz, framed for a Chicago murder. Three thousand ...
Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018) [1] was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death. Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas when the 16-year-old student Fergeson was a visiting athlete from ...