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Both victims eventually identified Arthur Whitfield as the assailant. In 1982, he was convicted of one of the crimes and pled guilty to the second in order to receive a lighter sentence and have some of the charges dropped. DNA testing in 2004 proved that he was innocent of both crimes. The first victim was accosted as she got out of her car.
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row but later found to be wrongly convicted.Many of these exonerees' sentences were overturned by acquittal or pardon, but some of those listed were exonerated posthumously. [1]
As of January 2022, 375 people previously convicted of serious crimes in the United States had been exonerated by DNA testing since 1989, 21 of whom had been sentenced to death. [13] [49] Almost all (99%) of the wrongful convictions were males, [50] [51] with minority groups constituting approximately 70% (61% African American and 8% Latino).
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.
Marco Contreras was a free man once a judge in Southern California ruled him innocent of attempted murder of Jose Garcia n in 1996. Innocent man freed 20 years after being wrongfully convicted of ...
Exonerations may be browsed and sorted by name of the exonerated individual, state, county, year convicted, age of the exonerated individual at the time of conviction, race of the exonerated individual, year exonerated, crime for which falsely convicted, whether DNA evidence was involved in the exoneration, and factors that contributed to the wrongful conviction. [8]
That means that despite studies showing that Black and white people use drugs at similar rates, innocent Black people are 19 times more likely to be convicted of drug crimes than innocent white ...
Up to 10,000 people may be wrongfully convicted of serious crimes in the United States each year. [12] According to Professor Boaz Sangero of the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan , most wrongful convictions in Israel relate to less serious crimes than major felonies such as rape and murder, as judicial systems are less careful in ...