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Towler was convicted for the assault of a 12-year-old boy and rape of 11-year-old girl in a wooded area. Towler was exonerated by DNA testing. Oct 29, 1981: Ernest Holbrook and Herman Rucker Murder of Tina Harmon: Lodi, Ohio: Life imprisonment One year Yes Holbrook and Rucker were accused of the abduction and murder of 12-year-old Tina Harmon ...
Bill Wilson was convicted of the 1912 murder of his wife and child and sentenced to life in prison. He was exonerated in 1918 when they were both found living in Indiana. Jackson County. The Scottsboro Boys were nine black juveniles convicted of an alleged 1931 rape of a white girl, eight of whom were initially sentenced to die by the electric ...
Gerald A. "Tooky" Amirault (born March 1, 1954) is an American convicted in 1986 of child sexual abuse of eight children at the Fells Acres Day School in Malden, Massachusetts, run by his family. He and his family deny the charges, which supporters regard as a conspicuous example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria. Amirault was released from prison ...
Collectively, these cases illustrate the inarguable good CIUs can do to address a chilling reality: Innocent people have been and will be convicted and sent to prison for crimes they didn’t commit.
The two were wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. ... Pleytez hopes other innocent people who might be stuck in prison get to experience ...
Steven Avery was exonerated in 2003 after serving 18 years in prison for a sexual assault charge. [55] [56] After his release, he was convicted of murder. [57] [58] Cornelius Dupree was convicted of sexual assault and robbery in 1980, and exonerated by DNA evidence in 2011 by the Innocence Project. [59] [60]
A 2017 report highlighted that although African Americans form 13% of the American population, they accounted for 47% of the exonerations on the Registry. To which must be added most of the 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in "group exonerations". [2]
Graner was convicted of assault, battery, conspiracy, maltreatment of detainees, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty; he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and loss of rank, pay, and benefits. [12] England was convicted of conspiracy, maltreating detainees, and committing an indecent act and sentenced to three years in prison. [13]