How can somebody be held up in prison for something there isn’t exactly proof of them doing? Roosevelt Myles was given the chance for another court hearing over a decade ago. Miles claims that he is not found guilty...could he be a so called “Shawshank Redemption Case”? Later investigation revealed that there has been at least 51 people who has accused Detective Guevara of wrongly framing them of murders. Myles says he got beat by a flashlight and phone book by Detective Anthony Wojcik while two other detective stood watching and didn’t stop what was taking place.…
It was actually a very interesting case. Long story short, a man named Edward Coolidge was suspected and eventually charged with killing a 14 year female named Pamela Mason. Edward was questioned and cooperatively agreed to take a lie detector test and even showed the officers three different guns that he owned. The lie detector was inconclusive, but he did however admit of committing theft. Two different officers decided to visit the home while Coolidge wasn’t there to confirm his story with the wife.…
When Kalief Browder was 16 he was arrested in the Bronx for falsely being accused of stealing a backpack. Throughout the duration of his time in the precient Kalief proclaimed his innocents a number of times when he was questioned by authorities. In the…
In 1984 Williams was arrested for committing murder. It’s stated that he “was arrested for the murder a 10 year old girl” (2) which he discarded the body along a gravel road. The crime was committed in Des Moines, Iowa. “Following the disappearance of a 10 year old” (3) girl, about 200 people volunteer to look for the missing child, it stated that “covering an area several miles” (3) both ways. Right at the time of the search, right before William’s was arrested, two days after he killed the girl, he would surrendered to the police on one condition, to not be interrogated.…
Randolph Arledge was released from prison after twenty nine years when he was sentenced to ninety nine (McCathchy). Arledge was released after DNA testing, that he was innocent. Next he…
The courts got it all wrong; they jailed the wrong man! In 1999, a student at Woodlawn High School was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. His name was Adnan Syed; he was accused, tried, and convicted of murdering a fellow student. The body of Hae Min Lee, an eighteen-year-old senior, was found in Leakin Park. When the state wrongly convicted him for Hae Min Lee’s murder, the prosecutors used testimonies from suspects that were inconsistent and they attempted to vilify him to make him out to look like a bad kid.…
Look at whole picture when determining release status The death of Derrick Robie, 4, shocked residents of Steuben County, New York in the summer of 1993. There is no doubt his death was horrific and violent; he was strangled and sodomized, which implies his attacker was filled with rage and hatred. Eric M. Smith, now 24, was eventually charged and convicted with the crime that he committed at the age of 13. He was sentenced to the max sentence at the time for second-degree murder, which was a minimum of nine years to life in prison.…
Within this previous month a Indiana state police trooper was fired, and is facing multiple lawsuits for preaching to motorist during traffic stops. Trooper Brian Hamilton was warned several times before to “Stop proselytizing to people during traffic stops”, but continued to pursue what he believed was “his calling of God”. Regardless of what Hamilton believed, his case spurred several lawsuits over the separation of church and state. According to Indy Star “Senior Trooper Brian Hamilton was a 14-year veteran of the agency.…
He was arrested in 1963 and had his case was reviewed in 1966. The confession he told could not be used as evidence because the police officers who arrested him did not read him his right to an attorney and self-incrimination.…
Then Putnam revises records of the accused and made it seem like they’re guilty. The accused were then found guilty and hung. The death of the accused was not the accuser’s fault.…
The component of the 8th amendment is supposed to help in situations like this. Wrongful convictions often happen when the police or prosecution has made a mistake or there was an eyewitness misidentification. Unfortunately many also plead guilty despite being insolent due to the pressure, they eventually end up taking the plea bargains. A study…
In the book “Ordinary Injustice” by Amy Bach, chapter four titled “Show Trial”, describes a number of different cases showing wrongful convictions being processed through the criminal justice system based off of false confessions. In Chicago, there was a nine-year-old girl named Lisa Cabassa was found raped and killed in the back of an alley a couple miles from her home. Two months after the rape and murder of Lisa, a witness named Judy called the police to give her testimony on the crime. Her statement consisted of her telling the police the people involved with the crime were named Michael Evans and Paul Terry, whom were teenagers from the neighborhood. She spotted them with Lisa that night.…
In the article A Shot to the Heart, by Stephanie Clifford, there is leading issue about wrongfully convicting an innocent person. The story that is discussed in the article is about a case known as the Potter murder. The Potter murder consisted of a group of men involved in robbing and murder at the Irene New Hope Grocery in New York. In the back of the Irene Grocery store was an illegal gambling den. On the evening of August 18th in the den of Irene’s Grocery two men burst through the doors waiving the gun telling the men gambling to get down.…
Wrongful conviction has become a notable issue, part of the problem is caused by false confessions. A confession is an acknowledging guilt in writing or by speech. In the courtroom a confession is a powerful form of evidence. There are many cases known to be false confessions to a crime not committed by the person due to mental impairment, the threat of a harsh sentence, and because of coercion. False confessions can be caused by mental impairment an individual to believe that he commit the crime.…
THE CASE AGAINST RALPH ARMSTRONG In late 2015, Wisconsin’s criminal justice came to the fore of the nation’s public consciousness with the Making a Murderer documentary series. The series detailed the handling of Steven Avery’s murder case in 2007 and how it related to his exoneration in an earlier wrongly convicted rape case in 1985. Both of his cases fell under a heavy cloud of doubt in the veracity of the investigation, the validity of the charges against him and the trial that imprisoned him.…