Tag Archives: unjustly condemned
$40 million Awarded to 5 Young Men Wrongly Convicted
The five men who were convicted of beating and raping the “Central Park Jogger” in the late 1980’s are actually innocent. The five black men were teens when they were accused. Their case triggered a feeding frenzy of publicity, in which the media widely presumed them to be guilty. Unfair police tactics led to… Read More »
Murder Conviction Overturned
A woman who was convinced to plead guilty to murdering her girlfriend in 2004 may not be the killer and will either be retried or set free. U.S. District Judge Malcolm Marsh reported that new scientific evidence might reveal that Lisa Marie Roberts did not strangle Jerri Lee Williams. In May 2002, The naked… Read More »