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Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the knowing use of false testimony by a prosecutor in a criminal case violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, even if the testimony affects only the credibility of the witness and does not directly relate to the innocence or guilt of ...
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 to death, Adams to 75 ...
A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Such accusations can be brought by the victim, or by another person on the alleged victim's behalf.
Marino was later convicted of the murder (he couldn't be charged with the rape due to the statute of limitations.) and was given an additional life sentence. Nov 8, 1988: Joseph Burrows: Murder Kankakee, Illinois: Death 6 years Yes William Dulan, an 88-year-old retired farmer, was found dead November 8, 1988.
CHICAGO (Reuters) -The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of actor Jussie Smollett, the one-time star of the TV drama "Empire", for staging a hate crime against himself ...
Being wrongfully convicted three times for the murder of Holly Staker and receiving the largest wrongful conviction settlement in US history Juan A. Rivera Jr. (born October 31, 1972) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan, Illinois .
The man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder ...
Lindahl is also accused of raping and later killing Debra Colliander before she was set to testify against him. Colliander's body was found buried in a Kendall County field in 1982—by which ...