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A series of wrongful convictions were uncovered in the 2010s which had a large impact on the judicial system and undermined public trust in the Chinese justice system. [58] [59] [60] Zhao Zuohai was one of the wrongful convictions, who had to serve 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. The alleged victim that he murdered had ...
A wrongful conviction is never the work of a lone bad apple. Like a plane crash, a wrongful conviction is a system failure, an "organizational accident." ... Pressing problem emerging for Kansas
Matt Foot, co-director of Appeal, the charity which helped Mr Malkinson overturn his conviction in 2023 after 17 years in prison, expressed alarm at the “disturbing” rise in the number of ...
Kenneth Nixon went numb the moment he was found guilty in September 2005 for two murders he didn’t commit – a wrongful conviction that saw the then-19-year-old father of two condemned to spend ...
The prosecution appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court, but the state's highest court rejected the appeal. The prosecution dismissed the charges on October 11, 2018. Jones' nearly 45 years in prison was the second longest time spent incarcerated after a known wrongful conviction in U.S. history at the time. [79] June 3, 1973: Chol Soo Lee: Murder
[7] [8] Shirley's conviction was eventually quashed by the Court of Appeal in 2003, on the basis of exculpatory DNA evidence. Stephen Downing was a 17-year-old council worker convicted and imprisoned in 1974 for the murder of a 32-year-old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell. His conviction was overturned in 2002 after Downing had served 27 years in ...
For more than twenty-five years, I have reported on wrongful convictions, and I have followed the efforts of those newly-freed to return to the lives they left behind. And it's a real struggle.
Antonio Mallet, right, delivers remarks as he had a wrongful murder conviction from 1990s overturned by Judge Alvin Yearwood at the Bronx Hall of Justice, Sept. 26, 2024.