Innocence Project

10/5/2011

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Reply to this post with your Innocence Project posts:

1. The name of your exonerated convict.
2. The charge, the date of conviction and the jurisdiction.
3. The evidence that lead to their conviction.  (Which "cause" do they fall under.)
4. What surprised you about the case you studied?
8 Comments
donquisha
10/5/2011 01:11:09 am

Dennis Williams was convicted of rape and murder in 1978 and sentenced to death. Williams was convicted because of eye witness accounts that had timing inconsistancies, an improper forensic testimony that said that a hair found at the scene was his, bad lawyering because his lawer did not challenge this improper forensic claim, and false conffesions. The most suprising thing about this case was that the evidence had many obvious flaws but was ignored by the jury and judge, and that the lawyer later said that the reason for his poor lawyering was that he was "so stressed he couldn't think strait".

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Whispertickles
10/5/2011 01:12:42 am

1. Arthur Mumphrey
2. Aggravated sexual assault, 1986 in TX
3. False information from informants and government misconduct. The rape kit had not been properly tested and when Arthur pursued it to clear his name, he was falsly told it wasn't in legal storage.
4. I was surprised that even though the evidence was very accessible, the rape kit was never compared to Arthur, and instead false informants were believed over hard evidence.

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bubbles
10/5/2011 01:14:35 am

1.ray krone
2.murder kidnapping, sexual assult. convicted in 1992, arizona
3. used bite marks on vitims breasts and neck.
4. That the forensic scientist never performed semen or DNA tests.

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alpha 1
10/5/2011 01:14:48 am

Johnnie Lindsey
Conviction: Aggravated Rape

Sentence: Life
Year of Conviction: 1981, 1985


When a lineup is not properly conducted, it can be suggestive and lead to a wrongful conviction. This lineup was improper because no law enforcement officer was present to administer the lineup in a controlled setting, a year had passed since the crime and only two of the six men pictured were shirtless.

he lost 25 years of his life

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Masterpeice
10/5/2011 02:11:41 am

Kirk Bloodsworth

Conviction:First Degree Murder, Sexual Assault, Rape

Date Of Conviction: 1985

Jurisdiction: MD

Evidence: evidence was challenged in Bloodsworth’s appeals, which asserted that the bloody rock was mentioned because the police showed him a rock during the interrogation. The incident he mentioned regarding his wife amounted to his failure to buy the food she had requested.The police failed to inform the defense that there may have been another suspect.

Contributing Causes: Eyewitness Misidentification, Government Misconduct

I believe he was gulity of this crime but evience was so corrupted he was eventually let go.

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julian
10/6/2011 12:30:22 am

1. Clyde Charles
2. rape/assault, 3/12/81, LA
3.the dominant evidence was the clothes he was wearing which matched the description from the victim, and the victims identification of clyde. They also found hair on his clothes that was similar to the victims, but not necesarily a match to hers.
4. this case was surprising because he was essentially convicted on the testimony of the victim and an officer who had previously seen him.

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Witchdoctor24
10/6/2011 12:43:20 am

Michael Blair
Capital Murder, convicted 1994 in Texas.
The main evidence was alot of faulty witness testimony, and invaild forensic science.
The case was suprising because he never left prison,he was charged with other assults for which he was convicited for again.

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Sage
10/10/2011 12:50:33 am

1. A.B. Butler
2. Convicted on aggrivated kidnapping (rape was the aggrivated part)
3. He was convicted in 1983 for death row in Texas.
4. He was relesased and pardoned in 2000 by gov. Bush.
5. He was the 17 person in America to get the death sentence lifted off of them.
6. The reason he was convicted was because the victim identified him in a line up, then without dna anaylisis he was sent to jail.
7. They did a rape kit on dna that they had stored in filage and it did not match his dna.
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