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Craig Richard Coley (born June 7, 1947 in Los Angeles County, California) [1] is an American man who was wrongfully convicted of a double murder in Simi Valley, California, and spent 39 years in prison. He was pardoned by the governor of California in 2017 because DNA testing, not available at his original trial, did not support his conviction. [2]
Bruce Lisker is an American man who at age 17 was wrongly arrested, tried, and convicted for the March 10, 1983 murder of his adoptive mother Dorka, 66, in the family's Sherman Oaks residence.
Centurion is the first organization to investigate cases of wrongful convictions in the US and Canada. In 1987, California businesswoman, Kate Germond, joined McCloskey and together they built an organization that has secured the release of 63 (as of 15 October, 2019) wrongly convicted men and women from all across the United States and Canada. [3]
A former News & Observer reporter and a lawyer for the wrongly accused team up to provide housing to exonerees. When the wrongly convicted are freed, where do they go? This NC farm may have answer.
A former sub-postmaster jailed after being wrongly convicted of false accounting says he has been given a full final compensation payment. More than 900 people were prosecuted after faulty Horizon ...
Beth Sarim was built in San Diego, California in 1929. Rutherford died at the property in 1942. Rutherford, a Baptist, married Mary Malcolm Fetzer, a Presbyterian, in Boonville, Missouri, on December 31, 1891. Around the time of the marriage, Rutherford became an atheist. [203] Their only child, Malcolm, was born on November 10, 1892. [204]
Judge Laura Priver expressed her gratitude to the DA's office for their work, then Wilson repeatedly thanked the judge for his release. He was reunited with his family the following day as a free man.
Arthur Paul Carmona (February 5, 1982 – February 17, 2008) served more than two years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of two armed robberies on the basis of eyewitness testimony. His case took on prominence in the ongoing debate in the legal community over the reliability of eyewitness identification. After his release, he had ...