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Crime descriptions marked with an asterisk indicate that the events were later determined not to be criminal acts. People who were wrongfully accused are sometimes never released. By August 2024, a total of 3,582 exonerations were mentioned in the National Registry of Exonerations. The total time these exonerated people spent in prison adds up ...
A false accusation is a claim or allegation of wrongdoing that is untrue and/or otherwise unsupported by facts. [1] False accusations are also known as groundless accusations, unfounded accusations, false allegations, false claims or unsubstantiated allegations. They can occur in any of the following contexts: Informally in everyday life
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were 19 and 15 years old, respectively, when they were accused of the 1983 rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie. They were later convicted and sentenced to death, although Brown's death sentence was soon commuted to life imprisonment due to his young age excluding him from the death penalty.
Pages in category "People wrongfully convicted of murder" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of miscarriage of justice cases.This list includes cases where a convicted individual was later cleared of the crime and either has received an official exoneration, or a consensus exists that the individual was unjustly punished or where a conviction has been quashed and no retrial has taken place, so that the accused is legally assumed innocent.
Hemme's guilt was debated and Michael Holman, a St. Joseph police officer, is accused of having committed the murder, including by Pasley. An 188 page memorandum by Judge Ryan Horsman in 2024 ruled that the evidence in the case linked Holman to the crime. Hemme has the longest prison tenure for a wrongfully convicted American woman.
Gary Gauger (born January 21, 1952) is a formerly imprisoned convict, who was falsely accused and convicted of the murders of his parents, Morris and Ruth Gauger, and later exonerated. Following the murder on April 8, 1993, Gauger ultimately spent nearly two years in prison and 9 months on death row before being released in March 1996. [1] [2 ...
Wilson was convicted of rape and sentenced to 8½ years in prison. Three other men, Geoffrey A. Farris, John E. Danser and Richard D. Pauley Jr., were also initially indicted with the crime through accusations by others, but their charges were later dropped before trial as Tice would not testify against them.