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Convicted 1999. Toney later died in a car accident on October 3, 2009, just one month and a day after his exoneration. [223] Yancy Douglas, Oklahoma. Convicted 1995. [224] Paris Powell, Oklahoma. Convicted 1997. [225] Robert Springsteen, Texas. Convicted 2001. [226]
Rolando Cruz (born 1963) is an American man known for having been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, along with co-defendant Alejandro Hernandez, for the 1983 kidnapping, rape, and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in DuPage County, Illinois. The police had no substantive physical evidence linking the two men to the crime.
The Jeanine Nicarico murder case was a complex and influential homicide investigation and prosecution in which two men, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez, both Latinos, were wrongfully convicted of abduction, rape and murder in 1985 in DuPage County, Illinois. They were both sentenced to death.
Two men wrongfully convicted in separate murder cases in California have been exonerated after “collectively spending decades in prison,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón ...
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.
He was sentenced to life without parole. He was released in 2017 and exonerated in 2018 after the University of Michigan's innocence project took up his case, declaring him the longest-serving innocent man in the United States, [73] although his record has since been broken. [74] In prison Phillips taught himself to paint watercolors.
Video obtained by FOX11 shows one of the deputies using the controversial restraining method on 34-year-old Alejandro Hernandez, while another officer strikes him in the face, causing him to bleed ...
Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez. Clutter’s pre-trial investigation also helped free Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez from death row in Illinois. [18] Ten-year-old Jeanine Nicarico disappeared from her home on February 23, 1983, in Naperville, Illinois. She was found two days later and had been raped and murdered.