According to the New York Times, District Attorney Ben Creekmore of Oxford, Mississippi, who took over the case when the previous D.A. Leaving the courthouse, Rivera hugged his three-year-old son, stating that he was “elated” and “felt vindicated.” (Winston-Salem Journal, November 23, 1999). At 25, I was given a death sentence – and I am today alive and well and kicking and a free man.” Favata was temporarily suspended from the practice of law as a result of his misconduct in the case. Cook County prosecutors dropped charges against Solache and his co-defendant Arturo DeLeon-Reyes after Circuit Court Judge James Obbish overturned their convictions, finding that disgraced Chicago detective Reynaldo Guevara had told “bald-faced lies” under oath when he testified to having no memory of interrogating Solache and DeLeon-Reyes and denied having beaten false confessions out of the men. See a list of all of the additional exonerations here. "[376] Author and minister Barbara Ann Reynolds has criticized the confrontational tactics of BLM. An Alabama jury acquitted death row inmate Wesley Quick of the 1995 double murder for which he was sentenced to death in 1997. 05-70011, U.S. 5th Cir. Because the conspiracy and assault charges remained in place, the court reluctantly resentenced Croy to ten years probation. Aaron Patterson spent 17 years on death row and always maintained his innocence in the stabbing deaths of an elderly couple in 1986. 1987); Erwin v. Henman, No. There was no physical evidence linking Graves to the crime, and his conviction relied primarily on Carter’s testimony that Graves was his accomplice. Florida — Conviction: 2006, Acquitted: 2009. South Carolina Conviction: 1979, Acquitted: 1981. The DNA results combined with the victim’s statement all but exonerated Washington. The court noted that Myers had “chang[ed] his story in material respects at least three times” and that a newly discovered witness, who knew both Myers and Johnson, had seen three individuals—one of whom was Myers and none of whom was Johnson—fleeing the murder scene. A convicted felon testified that Melendez admitted to the crime, and another witness with a grudge against Melendez put him at the scene. In addition, photographs of the interrogation room revealed the phrase “Aaron lied” etched in the door of the room. [118] Glenn Loury advocated the phrase "all lives matter" to focus on policy issues rather than politics. The state said it is continuing its investigation into the murders. North Carolina — Conviction: 1997, Charges Dismissed 1999. His death sentence was vacated by the California Supreme Court in 1988. A Hillsborough County, Florida trial court exonerated Robert DuBoise on September 14, 2020, dismissing all charges against him 37 years after he was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for rape and murder. Kennedy Brewer, who spent 12 years on Mississippi’s death row for the 1992 murder and rape of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, has been exonerated of the charges, and another man, Justin Johnson, has been arrested for the same crime. Dausch remains in prison in another state on unrelated charges. In addition, jurors heard testimony from an eye-witness who insisted that it was not John Thompson whom she saw kill the victim. In his first trial, the prosecution introduced hair evidence from Nichols’ car that the FBI said matched McCormick. diversity summit", "Black Lives Matter protests also affect Indigenous people", "Q&A: Founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada explains the call to defund police", "Indigenous and Black people in Canada share social exclusion and collective outrage", "En ny shitstorm har skabt forvirring om, hvad Black Lives Matter Denmark stÃ¥r for – historien om bevægelsen begynder i 2016", "Black Lives Matter fÃ¥r en midtsøgende konkurrent", "Kritikken hagler ned over Black Lives Matter-talskvinde: Bevægelsen bliver forplumret med hendes budskaber", "Criticism raining down on BLM Denmark spokesperson", "Black Lives Matter i Danmark i voldsomt angreb: Amnesty International er en helt, helt hvid organisation". 1991) and The Daily Oklahoman, 4/1/93). Pearson is one of 11 additional exonerations discovered by DPIC in 2021 during its research of all modern-era death sentences. from where the crime was committed and did not handle the gun involved Kwame Ajamu remarked, ​“I was sen­tenced to die, as was Ricky and my broth­er. The two men who were convicted of committing the killing remain on death row. Oklahoma — Conviction: 1988, Charges Dismissed: 1999. Adams had been convicted at age 19 on the testimony of two witnesses, both of whom had unrelated charges against them dropped after their testimony. It's actually much safer", "Marco Rubio shows other Republicans how to respond to Black Lives Matter", "Here Are The Conservative Pundits Branding Black Lives Matter A 'Hate Group, "Why did Chris Christie go after Black Lives Matter? Read “Life After Death Row” by Sara Rimer in The New York Times Magazine, Oklahoma Conviction: 1987, Acquitted: 1993. Both men are intellectually disabled - McCollum has an IQ in the 60s and Brown has scored as low as 49 on IQ tests. Prosecutors filed a motion to drop charges against Jackson, Bridgeman, and their co-defen­dant, Kwame Ajamu (for­mer­ly, Ronnie Bridgeman), who had been released, but not exon­er­at­ed, in 2003. The following day Butler was arrested for child abuse due to the bruises left by her resuscitation attempts. See a list of all of the additional exonerations here. Thomas Mesereau, a member of Quick’s defense team, said Quick should have never been on Death Row and that justice was served with his acquittal because “the truth finally came out.” (Birmingham News, April 22, 2003). However, secret tape recordings of the two men’s conversations, made at the request of the FBI, revealed no such confession, and Manning vehemently denied confessing. (Phone conversation with now Magistrate-Judge James Larson, October 6, 2003, who represented Graham). [353], Several conservative pundits have labeled the movement a "hate group". He acknowledged that he faces such challenges as diversifying the police force, improving community relations, and addressing issues that catalyzed the Black Lives Matter movement. Shortly after his 17th birthday, Matthews was arrested for the murder of a local convenience store owner. In his second trial, in December 1984, Kyles was convicted and sentenced to death. Louisiana Conviction: 1975, Charges Dismissed: 1981. Tibbs, a black theological student, was convicted by an all-white jury on the testimony of the female victim whose testimony was uncorroborated and inconsistent with her first description of her assailant. Published books, novels, and TV shows have increased in popularity in 2020. Williamson suffers from bipolar depression and has been hospitalized for treatment. [45][46], In 2016, M4BL called for decarceration in the United States, reparations for harms related to slavery, and more recently, specific remedies for redlining in housing, education policy, mass incarceration and food insecurity. 10-3247, August 29, 2011; see also DPIC’s prior post; current post Jan. 23, 2012). On November 21, 2014, Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman were released from prison in Ohio. [61] On May 28, 2020, there were nearly 8.8 million tweets with the hashtag, and the average had increased to 3.7 million a day. [298] The act was later condemned by Home Secretary Priti Patel who said "This hooliganism is utterly indefensible. Brown and Troy were sentenced to death after being accused of fatally stabbing a fellow prisoner. "[76], Since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter,[77] the movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, television, literature, and the visual arts. "[27], On at least one occasion, a person represented as Managing Director of BLM Global Network has released a statement represented to be on behalf of that organization. Read “Death Isn’t Fair,” by Michael Hall in Texas Monthly, Read “After 17 Years…,” by Maureen Balleza in The New York Times, Ohio — Conviction: 1985, Charges Dismissed: 2005. “Jury Finds McCormick Not Guilty Of Killing Jeannie Nichols: Man Who Spent Years On Death Row To Go Free,” The Chattanoogan, December 5, 2007. The state dismissed all charges on May 12, 2009 while expressing reservations about House’s complete innocence. The court-appointed attorney for Adams was also representing one of the two brothers at the same time he was representing Adams. 1995)). [50], According to The Economist, between May 2020 and December 2020, donations to Black Lives Matter related causes amounted to 10.6 billion dollars. Bloodsworth was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young girl. Griffin had been sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow inmate in 1983. There is no physical evidence demonstrating any contact between Griffin and Bausley. At his 1989 trial, police testified that they found a jacket spattered with the victims’ blood in the basement of Wilson’s home. Illinois — Conviction: 2000, Charges Dismissed: 2017, Former Illinois death-row prisoner Gabriel Solache, a Mexican national whose death sentence was one of 157 commuted by Governor George Ryan in January 2003, was exonerated on December 21, 2017 after twenty years of wrongful imprisonment, but immediately seized by agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Alabama — Convicted: 1997, Acquitted: 2003. 2002)). Upon returning to his parent’s home in Moore, Oklahoma, McCarthy noted that his homecoming was like “landing on a new planet” and that he had “missed the entirety” of his adult life. [171], On July 5, Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot several times at point-blank range while pinned to the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [237] In 2020, NPR reported that the Washington D.C. Black Lives Matter chapter's demands were defunding the police, halting the construction of new jails, decriminalizing sex work, removing police from schools, exonerating protesters and abolishing cash bail in Maryland. [461][462], Conservative pundits such as Ryan Fournier and Candace Owens have falsely claimed that ActBlue funnels donations intended for Black Lives Matter to Democratic candidates, with some going so far as to allege the organization is a money laundering scam. An appellate judge in a related case stated that all seven individuals in this case were sentenced to life. The average bias measure was that unarmed African Americans had 3.49 times the probability of being shot compared to unarmed whites, although in some jurisdictions the risk could be as much as 20 times higher. At retrial, Ramos was acquitted. The state said it is continuing its investigation into the murders. The trial concluded after jurors took less than an hour to acquit Thompson. (New York Times, June 8, 2004). [54][55][56] Despite this, opponents have falsely portrayed the movement as violent. (State v. Sheets, 618 N.W.2d 117 (Neb. Although the defense introduced two witnesses who testified that Pennington and Spicer were never cell mates, Pennington testified that Spicer admitted to the crime while he and Spicer shared a cell. Three years later he received a new trial (State v. Krone, 897 P.2d 621 (Ariz. 1995) (en banc)), but was again found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in 1996. It’s unfortunate that he had to spend 16 years of his life in jail. Bowen was incarcerated in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary under three death sentences for over five years when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit finally overturned his conviction in 1986. Anthony Carey’s conviction relied primarily on the [110] The protests at times came into conflict with local and state police departments, who typically responded in an armed manner. (Wallace v. Kemp, 757 F.2d 1102 (1985) and Associated Press, 6/18/87). The UK-held protests marked the fifth anniversary of the shooting death of Mark Duggan. Hernandez was re-tried in 1990, but the trial ended in a hung jury. He did not report the murders to authorities, he said, because he was an undocumented immigrant and feared deportation. “Court Dismisses Ashley’s Killer, cites DNA Test,” Associated Press, The Houston Chronicle, September 17, 2008; Ex Parte Michael Nawee Blair, Nos. Regarding his early statement to the police, Thibodeaux noted, “They look for vulnerable points where they can manipulate you, and if you’re sleep-deprived or panicked, or you’re on something or drunk, it makes it that much easier to accomplish what they want to accomplish…. CR-99-0378-AP (2002)). [139][140] In Cincinnati, Ohio, BLM rallied and protested the death of Samuel DuBose after he was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer. McCoy had been convicted and sentenced to death in 2012, but the Court overturned his conviction in 2015 as a result of prosecutorial misconduct in which the trial prosecutor, Deputy Attorney General R. David Favata belittled McCoy in front of the jury for choosing to represent himself, made intimidating comments to McCoy during a break in proceedings, then lied to the judge about having made those comments. [150] In Baltimore, Maryland, BLM activists marched and protested as hearings began in the Freddie Gray police brutality case. Tex. Despite a 2008 motion to test the alternate suspect’s DNA, such a test has not been carried out. [153], In October, Black Lives Matter activists were arrested during a protest of a police chiefs conference in Chicago. 1986) and Oklahoma Publishing Co., 7/31/87). After D.A. Louisiana — Conviction: 1996, Charges Dismissed: 2004. Solache’s purported confession was written entirely in English by an assistant state attorney who did not speak Spanish. In addition, Patterson’s former girlfriend testified that she was with Patterson on the night the of the murders. (L.A. Daily Journal, October 29, 2002). Law enforcement groups claim the chant promotes death to police. Jones also had told police that the killer had been armed with a sawed-off shotgun and a state forensic witness testified at the trial that the victim had died from two shotgun wounds. The CIU said prosecutors had known at the time of trial that Barbara Jean had died of asphyxia and had not been beaten to death, but withheld the medical examiner’s report and presented false testimony on the cause of death. Defense counsel was unable to question Pennington as to who was paying the living expenses of Pennington and his wife, neither of whom was working at the time. A Chicago cop is accused of framing 51 people for murder. At the time of the murder, Finch had a long beard and distinctive sideburns, and by the time of his testimony, he changed his description of the shooter to match Finch. The trial attorneys appointed to defend Burrell were later disbarred for other reasons. Based on that decision, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed Finch’s death sentence and directed that he be resentenced to life without parole. In fact, since 1976 the Florida Supreme Court has acquitted only three people of all charges. conclude that there is significant racial bias in police shooting cases involving unarmed black suspects. Missouri — Conviction: 1991, Charges Dismissed: 1999, Dexter was accused in 1990 of murdering his wife of 22 years. Ford’s lead trial attorney had never tried a jury case before. Read “The Snitch System,” by Northwestern University School of Law Center on Wrongful Conviction, Read “A Broken System: Darby Tillis and Perry Cobb” by The Justice Project, Texas Conviction: 1977, Charges Dismissed: 1987. She said, “He’s gainfully employed. Submitting a report from its Conviction Integrity Unit that found “no credible evidence of guilt and … credible evidence of innocence,” Duval County prosecutors asked a Jacksonville trial court to dismiss all charges against Williams, now 76 years old, and his nephew, Nathan Myers, now 61. (Boston Globe, May 21, 2004). DNA testing showed no evidence of semen or male DNA on the victim’s clothing, bedsheets, or body and no male DNA on the locations on the victim’s body where she supposedly had been bitten. New Mexico Conviction: 1974, Charges Dismissed: 1976. Read “Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA,” by Tim Junkin, Texas Conviction: 1984, Charges Dismissed: 1993. Prosecutors dismissed charges on March 16, 2000 of the murder. 04-8990 U.S. (June 12, 2006); House v. Bell, E.D. (Associated Press, March 3, 2005). (State v. Johnson, 529 N.E.2d 898 (Ohio 1988)). In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court (Penalver v. Florida, No. Eddie Lee Howard was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the alleged rape and murder of an 84 year-old white woman.He represented himself at trial. At the end of the three day conference, on July 26, the Movement for Black Lives initiated a year long "process of convening local and national groups to create a United Front". The original trial, however, was marred by corruption, as the the judge in the case, Circuit Judge Thomas Maloney, accepted a $10,000 bribe during the trial. A second attorney, two years out of law school, worked at an insurance defense firm. District Attorney Harry Cornick Sr. decided on January 8, 1999 not to pursue the case further. Although the jury recommended a life sentence, the judge imposed a sentence of death. [389] It was started in response to Black Lives Matter after the homicides of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York on December 20, 2014. (Commonwealth v. Johnson, 429 N.E.2d 726 (1982)). Cox wrote an internal memo on the Crawford case in 2014 stating that Crawford “deserves as much physical suffering as it is humanly possible to endure before he dies” and attracted national criticism for questionable comments and practices, including telling The Shreveport Times that he believed the state needs to “kill more people.” Cox personally prosecuted 1/3 of all the cases in which Louisiana juries returned death sentences between 2010-2015. "[401] Another disinformation campaign, originating in June 2020 on 4chan, had the "goal of getting the hashtags #AllWhitesAreNazis (#AWAN) trending on Twitter. [108][109] The movement continued to be involved in the Ferguson unrest, following the death of Michael Brown. The seven white jurors in the fourth trial and the nine white jurors in the fifth trial voted for death. (Miami Herald, January 25, 2003). Derrick Smith, a rival gang member to the defendants and the state’s main witness, was one of the apparent targets in the shooting. The judge noted that no physical evidence linked Melendez to the crime. Later DNA testing showed that of the blood on Browning’s jacket was not Elsen’s. (State v. Mathers, 796 P.2d 866 (Ariz. 1990)) One of Mathers’ co-defendants, Theodore Washington, has raised a similar claim about the insufficiency of the evidence against him, but remains on death row. The prosecutor in the case, Arthur Jean, Jr., now a L.A. Country Superior Court Judge, withheld from the defense that West was given special treatment in light of his testimony. On retrial five witnesses testified that they heard Liuzzo confess to the murder and Beeman was acquitted. (Manning v. State, en banc (Feb. 12, 2015)). Wilson was arrested the day after the April 10, 1988, slayings of Dorothy Sewell, 64; her nephew, Tryone Mason, 33; and Mason’s girlfriend, Cynthia Goines Mills, 40. UPDATE: Despite being exonerated in Illinois, Manning was being held in Missouri on a kidnapping conviction. However, the State Attorney never presented evidence ruling out gang violence, nor did the prosecutors address the suspected motive of robbery. The inmate later recanted his story, saying he had hoped to win early release. A gun and car seen at the crime scene were linked to a man who was arrested in 1978 for another murder, but he was never charged in Franks’ murder. Sources: Cruz v. State, 690 S.W.2d 246 (Tex. The Court found that the defense attorney failed to conduct an adequate pretrial investigation, speak with possible witnesses, obtain a relevant police report, or seek pretrial investigative funds. (New York Times, August 24, 2001), Florida — Conviction: 1984, Charges Dismissed: 2002, \In 1984, a jury convicted Juan Melendez, then 33, of killing Delbart Baker and leaving him on the floor of his beauty school in Auburndale, FL. [21], On Wikipedia, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement was created in June 2020. In 1999, just five weeks before his scheduled execution, Thompson’s attorney discovered crucial blood analysis evidence that undermined information used to influence the jury’s decision to send Thompson to death row. Read “Capital Punishment’s Deathly Injustice,” by John Boger in The Los Angeles Times, Arizona Conviction: 1975, Acquitted: 1978, Treadaway was convicted of sodomy and first degree murder of a six-year-old and sentenced to death. Es gibt mehr als 24 Zeitzonen, da einzelne Staaten eine nicht ganzstündige Verschiebung zur UTC wählten und; an der Datumsgrenze die Zeitzone auch abhängig von der Wahl des Datums ist. [39] This year long process ultimately resulted in the establishment of an organizational platform that articulates the goals, demands, and policies which the Movement for Black Lives supports in order to achieve the "liberation" of black communities across America. [227] The breaking point was due primarily to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin,[228] eventually charged with second-degree murder after a video circulated showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd pleaded for his life, repeating: "I can't breathe. *UPDATE: *After Ford’s exoneration, the lead prosecutor on his case, A.M. “Marty” Stroud III, issued a public apology, expressing his belief in Ford’s complete innocence, saying, “There was no technicality here. 1997)). David Ferrara, Man with dis­missed mur­der con­vic­tion still on death row in Nevada, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 8, 2019. 2d 552, 557 (La. Arizona Conviction: 1981, Acquitted: 1995. In both trials, the juries convicted him and he was sentenced to death. Tibbs was sentenced to death for the rape of a sixteen-year-old white girl and the murder of her companion. On March 23, 2015, a Phoenix judge dismissed all charges against Debra Milke. … In fairness to Mr. Yarris, we requested that the prosecution be dismissed.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 10, 2003; Pennsylvania v. Yarris, No 690-OF1982, Court of Common Pleas, Delaware County, December 9, 2003 [order of Nolle Prosequi]). They failed to hire any experts to rebut the prosecution’s case because they believed they would have to pay for the experts themselves. The Court held that the state had failed to prove that the victim’s death was anything but an accident. Howard, however, always maintained that his confession was obtained by police torture. Cox was convicted and sentenced to death, despite evidence that Cox did not know the victim and no one testified that they had been seen together. In 2002, three top firearms examiners testified that the bullets could not be matched to Hinton’s gun, and may not have come from the a single gun at all. Padgett was convicted of murdering his estranged wife in 1990 and was sentenced to death. D’Ambrosio is 140th former death row inmate to be exonerated since 1973 and the 6th from Ohio. On September 4, 2020, following six trials marred by prosecutorial misconduct and racial prejudice, Curtis Flowers was exonerated of the July 1996 murders of four employees of a white-owned furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. [345], In February 2016, two Black Lives Matter activists protested at a private fundraiser for Clinton about statements she made in 1996 in which she referred to young people as "super-predators". During oral argument, Associate California Supreme Court Justice Carol Corrigan—a former prosecutor—described the forensic testimony that Benavides had brutally raped and anally sodomized Consuelo as “among the most hair-raising false evidence that I’ve encountered in all the time that I’ve been looking at criminal cases.”, Death row inmate Vicente Benavides released from custody Thursday after charges dismissed, The Bakersfield Californian, April 19, 2018, Jason Kotowski, Delano man whose murder conviction in death of 21-month-old girl was overturned last month will not be retried, April 17, 2018, Bakersfield Now Staff, Kern DA won’t retry overturned murder case, KMPH Fox 26, April 17, 2018. (State v. Robison, 608 P.2d 44 (Ariz. 1980) and The Dallas Morning News, 12/18/93). Mich. J. [393], White Lives Matter is an activist group created in response to Black Lives Matter. The witness later recanted his testimony, saying he feared he would be charged with the crime if he didn’t testify. 10 News Staff, Man on death row for Pasco murder to be set free, WTSP, June 18, 2015. (See R. Hussain, “Charges dropped in 20 year-old murder case,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 7, 2009; M. Walberg and C. Sadovi, “2 inmates convicted in ‘88 slayings to go free,” Chicago BreakingNews Center, July 7, 2009; and M. Walberg, “Burge-linked cases: 2 men freed for five 1988 murders as prosecutors find insufficient evidence for retrial,” Chicago Tribune, July 8, 2009)(Photo credit Bluhm Legal Clinic). racism. In 1968, all four were convicted and Limone was sentenced to die in Massachusetts’ electric chair, but was spared in 1974 when Massachusetts abolished the death penalty and his sentence was commuted to life in prison. B. Rogers, DA drops charges against Alfred Brown, Houston Chronicle, June 8, 2015. Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley and Phoenix Police Chief Harold Hurtt announced at a news conference on April 8, 2002 that new DNA tests vindicated Krone and that they would seek his release pending a hearing next month to vacate the murder conviction. The Commission found DNA evidence near the crime scene belonging to another man, Roscoe Artis, who was sentenced to death for a crime similar to the one for which McCollum and Brown were sentenced to death. Philadelphia homicide prosecutor Michael Barry falsely linked Johnson to the murder through the hat, telling jurors in his opening statement that it “was left at th[e] scene in the middle of the street [and] has Kareem Johnson’s sweat on it and has Walter Smith’s blood on it.”, Officer William Trenwith then testified that he had found the hat laying 8–10 feet from Smith’s body. On appeal, the Supreme Court of Louisiana found the evidence insufficient to support his conviction of first-degree murder and rendered a judgment of guilty of second-degree murder. Read “Life After Death Row,” by Sara Rimer in The New York Times Magazine, Texas Conviction: 1985, Charges Dismissed: 1989. Munson became a suspect once police realized that, at the time of the crime, he was on a work release program run by an Oklahoma prison where he was serving time for a barroom murder. (Guerra v. Johnson, 90 F.3d 1075 (5th Cir. Judge Harris described the failings of Vann’s original attorneys as “not only prejudicial, but disastrous.” (Id.) Fain agreed, and those samples were the key evidence against him in his trial. They also heard testimony that another man, Kevin Freeman, was the actual killer. Despite several witnesses who testified that he was 800 miles from the scene of the murder, Skelton was convicted and sentenced to death for killing a man by exploding dynamite in his pickup truck. The Prosecutor in the case, Charles Zalar, acknowledged that the only evidence against Mr. Burrows was the eyewitness accounts, “we don’t have much without them.” (New York Times, September 25, 1994). After the trial, Crawford’s appeal lawyers obtained additional evidence from experts in the fields of pediatric pathology, pediatric neuropathology, and pediatric infectious disease that the child had died of natural causes. Defense attorney Joseph Cheshire stated, “I think in the last five to six years, there’s a fairly well-demonstrated pattern of wrongful convictions in North Carolina that are only now coming to light because of our new open discovery law.”. Although Gray was never indicted, Giddens was sentenced to death after an all white jury deliberated for only 15 minutes. "[337] In June 2015, Clinton used the phrase "all lives matter" in a speech about the opportunities of young people of color, prompting backlash that she may misunderstand the message of "Black Lives Matter. However, the physical evidence — never presented by defense counsel — revealed that the bullets had been fired from outside, through the bedroom window, and had come from a single gun. On October 27, 2016, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously vacated Aguirre’s conviction and granted him a new trial. Texas Conviction: 1977, Charges Dismissed: 1989. On June 8, 2015, the Wayne County Georgia Superior Court granted the prosecution’s motion to dismiss all charges against Larry Lee, after he had spent more than 27 years in prison (more than 20 on death row) for a triple murder during a home robbery. Florida Conviction: 1983, Acquitted: 1987. A federal court hearing also provided evidence that the state’s mental health doctor had made significant errors in administering and scoring tests he had relied upon in testifying that Newman had been competent to stand trial. 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