Wrongly Convicted

Wrongly Convicted Disfranchised District Court 11th Circuit Supreme Court America's Apartheid Georgia's  Confederacy

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced"

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The Only known case of a husband and wife being jointly framed and wrongly convicted    

   

Virginia and George High spent over 7 years in federal prison (94-2001), after being Framed, Wrongly Convicted, The victims of Prosecutorial misconduct and of a judicial lynching, because they would not "cut-a-deal".  After which the U.S.A. stole 1.2 + million from the Highs, gave it to a white snitch and caused the High Family to lose 4 businesses and 4 + million in assets. George High is now 70 years old, nearly destitute and living in a low-income senior Citizens Building and pay $198.00 monthly and his total income is $615.00 monthly Social Security and $79.00 monthly SSI...but, George High affirm that: He will continue this fight until Justice prevail, or hell freeze over...which ever comes first..... 

 

The 4 Businesses We Owned/Operated & Our 4 + Million in Assets

George and Virginia High are husband and wife, having been married since 1968.   When this racist investigation began in 1990, the Highs had assets in excess of 4 million dollars, and had an ownership interest in Georgia Home Improvement Company Inc., High-Five Ltd., Shareholders in Bal, Inc. and owner/operators of Highs Realty Inc. in which George Sr. was Broker and Virginia, Eric and George W. High, Jr. along with 30+ other people were all licensed real estate agents. The second superseding indictment against the Highs alleged that they used these businesses as "fronts" to structure currency transactions and laundry money that was illegally obtained through the trafficking of narcotics.  George and Virginia High pled not guilty to the indictment and have maintained their innocence throughout the trial and subsequent proceedings.  Disfranchised Introduction:    hthttp://georgehigh.com/Disfranchised/My%20Memoirs%20Introduction.pdf 

  

Georgia Home Improvement Company, Inc.   http://corp.sos.state.ga.us/corp/soskb/Corp.asp?609545  ...The total cost of the restoration exceeded $850,000.00 and Georgia Home Improvement netted almost $500,000.00 during 80 and 81 + we made a “bundle” from real estate during that same period...After we finished the Herndon Mansion, we had a big nest egg and we started to sell houses and do owner financing which proved to be very lucrative because most of the houses in our area were non qualifying and non escalating FHA and/or VA ... excepts from Disfranchised  pg. 23-33     http://georgehigh.com/Disfranchised/Ga.%20Hm.%20His..pdf

 

Highs Realty Inc.  &  The High-Family Real Estate...1971 – 1994   http://corp.sos.state.ga.us/corp/soskb/Corp.asp?794493   This list is of the properties that we owned, held 1st &  2nd mortgages on, sold Owner-financing, Real estate Notes we held and etc.  On this list is also about 60 Quadplex, 40 owned by High-Five, Ltd. and 20 owned by George High. Now Bill Salinski and the "good-old-boys and gals" stole all our Real Estate and other Business records during the unjust search and seizure at our home and office so that the Highs could not mount a effective defense  to prove their innocence of the “trumped-up-charges... but the records were still at the Dekalb and Fulton County Courthouses and here they are.... All 18 pages...     http://georgehigh.com/Virginia/George%20%26%20Virginia%20Real%20Estate.pdf  


HIGH FIVE, Ltd.  http://corp.sos.state.ga.us/corp/soskb/Corp.asp?804829  The goal of the  Lakewood Village Homeless Empowerment Project is to provide permanent housing, job training/referrals. education support and part time employment for Atlanta's homeless community; to serve as a social service network and referral system to provide treatment for drug/alcohol dependent and mentally ill homeless persons.  http://georgehigh.com/gh/Dr.%20Marsh%20Proposal.pdf

Bal, Inc. - Was a corporation owned/operated by Eric, George Jr. Gerald and Greg High, (all 1st cousins). They made loans, secured by automobiles and real estate, in the amounts of $10,000 or less. Those records were also stolen by William Salinski and his  cronies from the office and the apartment that Eric and Jenique High rented on the lower lever of our home.  

http://corp.sos.state.ga.us/corp/soskb/Corp.asp?788129

 

 

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  The rule of Law in its most basic form is the principle that no one is above the law. Thomas Paine in his pamphlet - "Common Sense" (1776) stated: "For as in absolute governments, the King is Law, so in free countries the law ought to be the King, and there ought to be no other." The rule of law means that everyone is subject to the law; that no one, no matter how important or powerful, is above the law - not the President, not the Prime Minister. If anyone were above the law, none of our liberties would be safe.   http://allafrica.com/stories/200811031131.html  

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A Short History of Impeachment: High crimes and misdemeanors...Since 1797 the House of Representatives has impeached sixteen federal officials. These include two presidents, a cabinet member, a senator, a justice of the Supreme Court, and eleven federal judges. Of those, the Senate has convicted and removed seven, all of them judges. Not included in this list are the office holders who have resigned rather than face impeachment, most notably, President Richard M. Nixon. 

The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: "the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." http://www.infoplease.com/spot/impeach.html 

 

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     The record will clearly reflect, and I have proven beyond a reasonable doubt, that from at least 1992, until this very day, the Executive and Judicial branches of the United States of America and their surrogates has engaged in a "continued and on-going"  pattern of Racketeering and has colluded amongst themselves to maintain a united front and stonewall all the efforts of George and Virginia High in their quest for Equal Protection and Due Process of   Law... The Highs have also been the victims of a government frame-up and racist conspiracy, the objective of which was to frame and imprison George and Virginia High because they would not "cut-a-deal"...   

     Under the circumstances, criminal and/or civil racketeering charges, or both, are legally justifiable and well within the statute of limitations against the named persons/entities who all had a part, directly or indirectly, in the "Racist Conspiracy, Framing and Wrongful Conviction" of George and Virginia High via the Investigation, the Indictment, the Trial, the Sentence, Incarceration and/or the Cover-up...

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Joe D. Whitley, Former U.S. Attorney

H. Allen Moye, Prosecutor

Barbara Brown, FBI,

West Johnson, U.S. Marshall

Lewis Valez, BATF

Dennis Tudor, U. S. Probation Dept.

William Salinski, IRS

Shelia Whipple, IRS

Terry Sosebee, GBI

Charles Boyd, GBI

William Morrison, Attorney for George High

Michael Abbott, Attorney for Virginia High

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals

         

    All of these Judges, “the Dirty Dozen,” violated their oath

 of Office, Committed Malfeasance and participated in the

 Framing of George and Virginia High, “With Malice” 

  

  (1) VINING, Jr., Robert L. District Judge 

  (2) HATCHETT, Joseph W., Chief Judge  

     (3) TOLFLAT, Gerald Bard Circuit Judge,

  (4) GODBOLD, John Cooper Senior Circuit Judge, 

     (5) EDMONDSON, James Larry    

  (6) HILL, James Clinkscales 

  (7) GIBSON, John R.  Circuit Judge

     (8) DUBINA, Joel Fredrick

  (9) BLACK, Susan Harrell 

     (10) BARKETT, Rosemary

 (11) HULL, Frank M.        

 (12) WILSON, Charles R.  Circuit Judge

  

   We have made our case of High Crimes and Misdemeanors against the

12 Judges and the Constitution “Demands” that they be impeached.

                                                                                              

Malfeasance…intentionally doing something either legally or morally wrong which one had no right to do. It always involves dishonesty, illegality or knowingly exceeding authority for improper reasons.  Malfeasance is distinguished from "Misfeasance," which is committing a wrong or error by mistake, negligence or inadvertence, but not by intentional wrongdoing. 

               

     Racketeering and RICO:  RICO stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. § 1961), a law that increases the severity of penalties for crimes performed in conjunction with organized crime. The law states that any person or group who commits any two out of a list of  35 crimes (known as racketeering activity in the U.S. Code) within a decade and can be determined to have committed them with similar results or similar intentions can be charged with racketeering.  The maximum penalties for racketeering include a fine of up to $25,000 and up to 20 years in prison in addition to the forfeiture of all business interests and gains gleaned from the criminal activity. In addition, the case can be re-tried in civil court; plaintiffs are allowed to sue for triple damages. The law covers crimes such as bribery, extortion, money laundering, counterfeiting, gambling, murder, arson, robbery, kidnapping, harboring certain illegal aliens, obstruction of justice, slavery and others.  

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5/17/08  Criminal Complaint to U.S. Attorney & FBI in Atlanta - (scroll up)  http://georgehigh.com/Disfranchised/US%20atty%20fbi%20atl.pdf 

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"Those Who Stand Up For Justice is Always On The Right Side Of History"

 

 

  Civil Rights - President Obama recognizes that our civil rights laws and principles are at the core of our nation. He has spent much of his career fighting to strengthen civil rights – as a community organizer, civil rights lawyer, Illinois State Senator, U.S. Senator, and now as President. He knows that our country grows stronger when all Americans have access to opportunity and are able to participate fully in our economy.  Lead Criminal Justice Reform  The President will lead the fight to build a more fair and equitable criminal justice system. He will seek to strengthen federal hate crime legislation and will work to ensure that federal law enforcement agencies do not resort to racial profiling…  http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil-rights 

  

 

  3/8/09 Holder vows to restore DOJ civil rights: Barack Obama went to Selma, Ala., two years ago to claim a place in the lineage of civil rights pioneers.
 
His African-American attorney general returned to mark “Bloody Sunday” again — this time, with a pledge to restore the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and end “the scourge of racial profiling.”  Much like Obama in 2007, Eric Holder’s appearance at Brown Chapel AME Church Sunday was part remembrance, part present-day politicsHolder was there to commemorate the day in 1965 when Alabama state troopers beat a group of civil rights marchers, but he also spoke to those in the church of racial struggles today, with a pledge that Obama would help protect the gains won by their predecessors. “Under my leadership, the Civil Rights Division will fight discrimination and inequality just as fiercely as the Criminal Division fights crime,” Holder promised in the sanctuary that often served as a local headquarters for civil rights activists in the ’60s. “Under my leadership, in all that it does, the Civil Rights Division will reflect the spirit of the movement that inspired its creation.”

Speaking about law enforcement — seen by some blacks as more foe than friend — Holder said he would strive for the police to “salute the residents of every neighborhood and for every resident to salute them in return.”“That will require the Justice Department to work hand in hand with police and communities to get neighborhoods engaged in promoting their own protection,” he said. “That won’t happen unless we relentlessly pursue an end to the scourge of racial profiling of African-Americans, Muslims and other Americans that alienates citizens from their own communities.”   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19756.html

. Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Legal Services Corporation’s Black History Month Celebration Washington, D.C. ~ Tuesday, March 2, 2010  ...Confronting this history can, at times, be disturbing. In the years after slavery was abolished, some local law enforcement officials in the former slave states used the law to build and sustain a criminal justice system that allowed African-Americans to be sold and rented to white business and plantation owners. In effect, this system reinstituted and preserved the condition of slavery for a people who were newly emancipated. And it did so without interference from federal officials.

This history shocks our collective conscience. And it should. But it also helps us understand the persistent suspicion – held by some – that the criminal justice system does not treat African Americans and other people of color fairly. And it can illuminate and explain the extent to which our old legal system has impacted the present economic conditions of some African-American communities. Indeed, this history is a powerful reminder of the always-persistent effects of injustice, and of the economic consequences that civil rights violations can cause   http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2010/ag-speech-1003021.html

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  George W. Bush during his six years as governor of Texas presided over 152 executions, more than any other governor in the recent history of the United States. According to statistics, George Bush has executed 9 INNOCENT PEOPLE..!   http://www.texecutions.com/  

        

The Execution Photos  by  J.J. Maloney     7/20/09 Texas reporter, Mike Graczyk has seen 315 of the state's 439 executions - and no records were kept for another 80  http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6699737&eetype=article&render=y&ck= 

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Executed But Possibly Innocent: There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Some cases with strong evidence of innocence include: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1935   
. Ruby Ridge and the killing of Randy Weaver's dog, then his son, then his wife.        http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/ruby-ridge-incident/     http://www.louisbeam.com/14inch.htm      

Up On Ruby Ridge   http://www.mtamicro.com/rubyridge.html 

1992 Four hundred armed federal agents conducted a siege of the Weavers' mountain home, first killing Randy Weaver's dog, then his son, then his wife. http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/firearms/enforce/rubyridge/ 

The Justice Department's Other Criminal Cover-Up - by James Bovard, January 1998  Michael Kahoe was sentenced last fall for felony charges of obstruction of justice. He will serve 18 months in prison and pay a $4,000 fine. Kahoe could have received up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. But the real lesson of the Kahoe sentence is this: Cover up a killing, get a pension. Kahoe was permitted to stay on the FBI payroll (at $112,000 a year) for several months after he pled guilty so that he could qualify for a pension of $67,000 per year. If he had been fired at the time that he pled guilty to obstruction of justice, his pension would have been much less. What sort of Justice Department keeps people on its payroll after they plead guilty to obstruction of justice?  http://www.fff.org/freedom/0198d.asp .  

 

  

2/28/93  Frontline: Waco The Inside Story (PBS), more than 80 Branch Davidians, including 22 children died in the fire on April 19.   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/  

       

Janet Reno…Will be forever connected to the deaths at Waco, Texas. Waco lead to the Oklahoma City bombing. Her actions lead to the death of approximately 80 men, women, and children near Waco, Texas on April 19th, 1993. By not investigating this fully another 168 people (19 children).were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19th 1995. [visit the Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum]      http://www.zpub.com/un/un-jr.html   

                                  

. BRANCH DAVIDIAN VICTIMS

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     The Victims:  Those Who Died:  On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb shattered the lives of many Oklahomans when it ripped away the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Everyone who died in the tragedy was someone. Maybe they were a wife, a husband, a son, a daughter, a co-worker,a friend. They all have a story. These biographical sketches represent an attempt to honor the 168 men, women and children who lost their lives in the explosion. The information was gathered by staff writers at The Oklahoman after interviewing family, friends and co-workers. 

     http://bombing.newsok.com/bombing/victims/

The complete story of the Oklahoma City Bombing that occurred on April 19, 1995. Get the complete history, get to know the bombing victims, view videos before during and after ... http://bombing.newsok.com/intro

.9/30/09 OKLAHOMA CITY - The FBI says it did not edit videotapes of the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building before turning them over to an attorney who is conducting an unofficial inquiry into the bombing. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_re_us/us_bombing_video  

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Man wrongly accused of murder fails to get 'storybook' ending
http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/condolences%20family.pdf 

             Leo Frank was Wrongly Accused, Falsely Convicted and Wantonly Murdered: August 16, 1915 - A caravan of eight vehicles bearing 25 armed men from the Atlanta area arrived at the Georgia StatePrison at Milledgeville around 10 p.m. The intruders seized Frank and departed into the night. Seven of the cars then took back roads headed for Marietta, while one car acted as a decoy in case of pursuit. Sometime early on the morning of the 17th, they reached the outskirts of Marietta. Here, at Frey's grove near Mary Phagan's girlhood home, the men decided to hang Frank from an oak tree.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FrankLynchedLarge.jpg 

.No one was ever criminally charged in connection with Frank's abduction and murder. In 1986 Frank was posthumously pardoned. http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-leaders-frank-leo-frank-case.html   

List of the Leo Frank Lynchers
http://flagpole.com/Weekly/Features/SteveOneysListOfTheLeoFrankLynchers.5May04   

 


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  Houston Riot of 1917 - 19  Black  soldiers  hanged and 63 Sentenced to life Between November 1, 1917, and March 26, 1918, the army held three separate courts-martial in the chapel at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. The military tribunals indicted 118 enlisted men of I Company for participating in the mutiny and riot, and found 110 guilty. It was wartime, and the sentences were harsh. Nineteen mutinous soldiers were hanged and sixty-three received life sentences in federal prison. One was judged incompetent to stand trial. Two white officers faced courts-martial, but they were released. No white civilians were brought to trial.   http://www.mmbolding.com/Porter/Bud_Porter_and_the_Houston_Riot_1917.htm
 

 

"Remember the Alamo,''  and do Y'all Remember James Byrd Jr.? 

    (From Left) James Byrd Jr. , Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer and John King.  - Dragging Death in Jasper Texas:  On June 7, 1998, Byrd, 49, accepted a ride from three men named Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, and John William King . He had already known one of them. Instead of taking him home, the three men beat Byrd behind a convenience store, chained him by the ankles to their pickup truck, stripped the man naked, and dragged him for three miles. Although Lawrence Russell Brewer said that Byrd's throat had been slashed before he was dragged, forensic evidence suggests that Byrd had been attempting to keep his head up, and an autopsy suggested that Byrd was alive for much of the dragging and died after his right arm and head were severed when his body hit a culvert. His body had caught a sewage drain on the side of the road resulting in Byrd's decapitation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Byrd_Jr.

Sept. 6, 2000…Juries in Jasper and Bryan sentenced Bill King, 25, and Russell Brewer Jr., 32, to death. On Thursday, a third jury in Jasper sentenced Berry to life in prison… http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/jasper/byrd/387258.html

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Wed Dec 23, 2009 - Texas man freed by DNA sues over 'excessive' fees ttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091223/ap_on_re_us/us_dna_exoneration_lawyer_fees
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September 22, 2003  Thirty-five victims of racist frame-up pardoned in Texas:  
HOUSTON—In response to a four-year battle against the arrest and jailing of more than a tenth of the Black population of the western Texas town of Tulia, Governor Richard Perry granted full pardons on August 22 for 35 of the 38 men and women convicted on frame-up drug charges.  http://www.themilitant.com/2003/6732/673255.html  

.10/1/09  Texas pardons inmate freed by DNA - A Texas man who spent more time in prison than any other inmate before being exonerated by DNA evidence has been pardoned by the governor of Texas.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33117021/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET 

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9/25/09  Texas panel reviews ruling that led to execution - - The Innocence Project questioned a Texas man's guilt. Now, a Texas forensic commission will review a report from an expert it hired who said the original arson determination was faulty.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33033652/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/page/2/from/ET\

.6/25/09  HOUSTON A federal jury has awarded $5 million to a Houston man who spent 17 years in prison on kidnapping and rape charges that were overturned in 2005. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090626/ap_on_re_us/us_crime_lab_lawsuit

.4/29/09:  A Texas man who spent 22 years in prison for a rape that forensic tests now suggest he did not commit is expected to be freed.  http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6542886&eetype=article&render=y&ck=

.2/7/09 A man who died in prison while serving time for a rape he didn't commit was cleared Friday by a judge who called the state's first posthumous DNA exoneration "the saddest case" he'd ever seen. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29065906/from/ET

After Dallas DA's death, 19 convictions undone : 7/29/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25917791/from/ET/

.Texas death row inmate's conviction overturned: 12/17/08   http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6279122&eetype=article&render=y&ck=

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Wed Feb 17, 2010 - Prosecutors: death row judge deserves punishment - SAN ANTONIO  Prosecutors urged a state panel Wednesday to punish a Texas judge for refusing to keep her court open past 5 p.m. to hear a last-minute appeal by a death-row inmate, and to ignore a key report that says she had been humiliated enough. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100218/ap_on_re_us/us_execution_deadline

8/17/09   Texas judge in death row appeal faces charges  Denying the rights of a condemned man is among five judicial misconduct charges that Judge Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is up against.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32441665/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET

Texas judge charged with blocking execution appeal: 2/19/09   Convicted killer Michael Richard was put to death on Sept. 25, 2007, after Keller ordered a clerk to close the court's office promptly at 5 p.m. Lawyers for Richard had requested that the office stay open an extra 20 minutes to permit a late appeal. Keller, a Republican who has served on the court since 1994, is known as "Killer Keller" for her relentless tough-on-crime approach. Her term expires in 2012. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_on_re_us/execution_deadline
 

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DNA test clears Dallas man jailed for 25 years: 9/20/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26797020/from/ET/
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Texas court halts execution of death row inmate - 9/10/08   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26628031/from/ET/   
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DNA test clears man of rape 26 years later: 1/4/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22493315/from/ET/  
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man who spent a dozen years in prison for a rape he didn't commit 10/09/07   http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Wrongly%20Imprisoned%20Man%20Freed%20in%20Texas%20After%2012%20Year1.pdf
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Man convicted in 1982 gang rape is cleared 6/24/07 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19374637/from/ET/ 
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. Correcting Justice: When The System Fail   http://www.blackpressusa.com/news/Article.asp?SID=3&Title=National+News&NewsID=12809
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April 24, 2009 Texas House lawmakers on Friday voted to boost the compensation the state pays to people who were wrongly sent to prison for crimes they didn't commit, and give them health insurance and pay for a college education. The bill approved 136-1 raises the lump sum payout from $50,000 to $80,000 for every year spent in prison. It also provides a monthly annuity based on the same amount to give them a lifetime of income. http://cbs11tv.com/local/wrongly.convicted.DNA.2.993739.html
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12/18/09   Report: Death sentences on the decline:  Even in Texas, which leads all states in executions, fewer are on death row.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34470417/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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. Texas executes 400th inmate since 1982: August 25, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20398934/from/ET/  
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executions in the U.S. fell to a 14-year low of 37 in 2008: 12/18/08
Texas is in a death penalty league of its own with 423 executions since
1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a temporary ban...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081211/us_nm/us_usa_executions_3
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3/19/09   New Mexico governor abolishes capital punishment:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_us/death_penalty_new_mexico
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3/24/09 Death penalty coming under new scrutiny in states:   http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6464928&eetype=article&render=y&ck=
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3/27.09  Va. gov vetoes death penalty expansion
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The total population of the U.S. corrections system now exceeds 7.3 million: 3/2/09 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29469360/from/ET/
 
. States ponder early release for some prisoners: 1/11/09 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28592088/from/ET/
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After 7 Georgia inmates exonerated, changes coming: 12/25/08  http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/7%20Ga%20inmates%20ex.pdf
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Changing death sentence rules could be mistake: 01/08/09  (Sen. Dan Weber (R – Dunwoody)  "The unanimous jury verdict system provides a safeguard in case you get the wrong guy," he stated. "Sometimes people who get the death penalty are later found innocent." He recalled that one of his law school professors said that it's better for nine guilty men to go free than for one innocent person to die. "There's a lot of truth in that," he said. http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/cham.%20news.pdf 
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 William Patterson...William Patterson was born in San Francisco on 27th August, 1891. His mother had been a slave and spent her childhood on a Virginia plantation. In 1923 Patterson and two friends opened a law office in Harlem. Patterson was involved in several campaigns to free people wrongly convicted of criminal acts. This included the defence of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the Scottsboro Case, where nine young black men were falsely charged with the rape of two white women on a train. Patterson was also involved in the defence of Angela Davis and Black Panthers leaders arrested during the 1960s.  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApattersonW.htm  
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Ferdinando Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888) both executed August 23, 1927, were two Italian-born laborers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed via electrocution on August 23, 1927 in Massachusetts for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of a pay-clerk and a security guard in Braintree, Massachusetts..Today, the case continues to incite controversy based on questions regarding culpability, the question of the innocence or guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti, and conformance, the question of whether the trials were fair to Sacco and Vanzetti. On August 23, 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation declaring, "Any stigma and disgrace should be forever removed from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. We are not here to say whether these men are guilty or innocent. We are here to say that the high standards of justice, which we in Massachusetts take such pride in, failed Sacco and Vanzetti."     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Sacco
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 "The Scottsboro Boys" Trials 1931 – 1937  No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern Railroad freight run on March 25, 1931.  Over the course of the two decades that followed, the struggle for justice of the "Scottsboro Boys," as the black teens were called, made celebrities out of anonymities, launched and ended careers, wasted lives, produced heroes, opened southern juries to blacks, exacerbated sectional strife, and divided America's political left… http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
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Feb. 12, 2010  - SCOTTSBORO, Ala. -   Ala. town marks infamous case 8 decades later  Museum acknowledges painful past of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’  - The very name of this Alabama city has stood for racial injustice for almost 80 years.  Nine young black men went on trial in Scottsboro in 1931 on charges of raping two white women in a case that made headlines worldwide. The defendants — eight of whom were sentenced to die — came to be known as "The Scottsboro Boys" and the charges were revealed as a sham. Now, four generations later, Scottsboro is acknowledging its painful past.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35367474/ns/travel-destinations/

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Angela Y. Davis:  In August 1970 Angela Yvonne Davis was catapulted into the national spotlight when she was put on the list of the ten most wanted criminals in the United States. An armed black man, Jonathan Jackson, entered the Marin County, California, Civic Center on August 7, 1970, with a weapon owned by Davis and attempted, along with three San Quentin prisoners, to take hostages. Jackson's intention was to hold the hostages until several inmates of Soledad Prison, including Jackson's brother, George, were released. During the attempt three of the assailants and the presiding judge were killed and three others wounded. A warrant was issued for Davis's arrest. She fled, eluding the police until October 1970. After a total of 16 months in prison in New York - where she was apprehended - and in California, Davis's trial began.  The prosecutor alleged that Davis engineered the plan to kidnap the judge and jurors because of her love for George Jackson. The prosecution presented witnesses who testified that they had seen Davis with Jonathan Jackson in the days preceding the August 7 incident. Davis and her defense attorneys argued that Davis was a political activist concerned with prison reforms and the oppression of the poor in general and was not moved to a crime of passion because of her feeling for Jackson. The all-white jury, composed of eight women and four men, acquitted Davis on all counts in June 1972. http://www.answers.com/topic/angela-davis  
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Angela Davis - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
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Geronimo Pratt:  J. Edgar Hoover considered him a potential messiah for Black people, however the police force feared him as one of the biggest threats to national security. He was framed by the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO and imprisoned for the murder of schoolteacher Caroline Olsen that occurred on a Santa Monica tennis court. Geronimo maintained that he was at a national Black Panther Party meeting in Oakland seven hours away and that FBI agents and police hid and possibly destroyed wiretap evidence that would prove it. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=944970\
  On June 10, 1997, Judge Dickey ordered Pratt to be released on $25,000 bail. He had spent 27 years behind bars. Pratt was released in time to watch his son, Hiroji, go through his eighth-grade graduation ceremony. Later, he returned to Louisiana to see his 94-year-old mother, Eunice Petty Pratt, whom he had not seen since 1974.   Pratt's stood completely vindicated when in 2000 the city of Los Angeles agreed to pay $2.75 million and the U.S. Department of Justice $1.75 million to settle a lawsuit for false imprisonment and violations of his civil rights.  http://www.answers.com/topic/geronimo-pratt  
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1839  In the case of the United States of America versus the Amistad Africans  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechamistadjqadams.html
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March 9, 1841  Senior Justice Joseph Story Reads the Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, In the case of the United States of America versus the Amistad Africans http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechamistadusscdecision.html
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.Jan. 03, 2007:  That no one is above the law…Four cases that highlight the strength of our justice system..Our system is far from perfect. However, by placing the search for truth and justice above political power and influence, it continually rekindles hope that even the powerful can't expect to get away with depriving us of our lives or liberty -- that no one is above the law.  http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Jan-03-Wed-2007/opinion/11699255.html   
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8/12/03  A federal judge in Boston said that there was mounting evidence innocent people were being executed. But he declined to rule the death penalty unconstitutional. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0812-01.htm
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"The criminal justice system can and does fail to distinguish the innocent from the guilty, and the implications for capital punishment are ghastly." -- There is no judicial mechanism for review of guilt or pronouncement of innocence after an execution. The courts are done with it. Therefore, it should go without saying that no court has announced that an executed person was innocent, since American courts by definition do not make such findings.  http://www.justicedenied.org/executed. 

These wrongful convictions are a not only a miscarriage of justice but also a disgrace to our American Justice System. There is a lot of money made from the corruption in our justice system and our prison system. A full scale investigation of the system is not only warranted but it is imperative to make the system truly a justice system instead of an injustice system.   

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The Innocents Database...2,738  People Currently Listed.  5/7/09   http://forejustice.org/search_idb.htm  

.192 Innocents freed in the United States as of 1/22/2007 
  http://innocenceproject.org/know/Browse-Profiles.php

129 Innocence Freed From Death Row as of 05/ 02/ 2008  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row

.In 2000, Ryan, as governor, declared a moratorium on executions in Illinois after 13 death row inmates were found to have been wrongly convicted. Then, days before he left office in 2003, he emptied out death row, commuting the sentences of all 167 inmates to life in prison. He declared that the state's criminal justice system was "haunted by the demon of error."   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14703115/from/ET/

.Report: Thousands wrongly convicted each year: 2/11/2005
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-11-wrongly-convicted_x.htm 

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3/5/10  2 ex-FBI officials to probe NC crime lab practices - - RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina's attorney general has ordered an independent review of the state's crime lab following revelations about practices there that led to the exoneration of a man wrongly accused of murder. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_re_us/us_testing_innocence

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2/17/10 Judges free NC murder convict after 16 years - RALEIGH, N.C. A man convicted of murdering a prostitute was exonerated and set free Wednesday in the first win for North Carolina's innocence commission, the only panel of its kind in the nation.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_testing_innocence

 

Jan 18, 2010 - DENVER   FBI reviews cases where flawed evidence used - - Three people convicted of murder have been released from prison because their cases were tainted by a now discredited theory that bullets found at a crime scene could be linked to bullets found in possession of suspects. Nearly five years after the FBI abandoned its so-called comparative bullet lead analysis, the FBI has yet to complete its review of nearly 2,500 cases where law enforcement used such evidence to investigate a case. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_us/us_discredited_bullet_evidence 

1/14/10  Nearly 24 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murder, Michael Tillman is free, and exonerated.   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34861892/ns/local_news-chicago_il/

Four Black Men Wrongly Convicted Of Murder, Win $36 Million Settlement: -   The four men sued Cook County, claiming the sheriffs officers who investigated the 1978 case were racists who hid evidence that would have helped the defense and ignored leads pointing to the real killers. Williams, 44, and Jimerson, 46, went to death row; Raines, 45, and Adams, 41, were sentenced to life in prison. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_17_95/ai_54731499/?tag=content;col1

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12/28/09  Pittsburgh City Council has approved a $3.77 million settlement with a man who spent 19 years in prison before his rape conviction was overturned by DNA evidence in 2005.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34613665/ns/us_news/from/ET
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12/16/09 - Man freed after 28 years in prison –A Washington man who spent 28 years in prison for raping and murdering a 21-year-old Georgetown University student was released Tuesday after DNA evidence showed he was innocent.  Upon setting him free, authorities handed Donald E. Gates a bus ticket, winter clothes and $75. D.C. Superior Court Judge Fred Ugast, who presided over the now 58-year-old's trial, threw out Gates' conviction Tuesday morning. He was released hours later from a prison in Tucson, Ariz. http://www.corrections.com/news/article/23036-man-freed-after-28-years-in-prison

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12/18/09  WASHINGTON -Investigators at the U.S. Justice Department are being asked to look into the case of a man freed from prison this week after 28 years because DNA tests showed he was innocent.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091218/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_man_convicted

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Fla. man exonerated after 35 years behind bars: 12/17/09  BARTOW, Fla. James Bain made his first-ever cell phone call Thursday, dialing his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091217/ap_on_re_us/us_old_rape_dna

12/15/09   DNA Evidence Clears Ga Man in 2007 Crime:  ATLANTA (MyFOX ATLANTA) - A man who spent two years in jail for a crime he did not commit is now a free man. DNA evidence proved 43-year-old Michael Marshall's innocence  http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/dna_evidence_clears_ga_man_in_2007_crime_121509    

 

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12/08/09  NEW YORK A New Jersey woman whose false story about a gang rape sent an innocent man to prison has pleaded guilty to perjury. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_re_us/us_gang_rape_recanted

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10/30/09 - Pa. high court tosses 'kids for cash' convictions - - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses thousands of juvenile convictions issued by a judge charged in a corruption scandal, saying that none of the young offenders got a fair hearing. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33539621/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET .

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9/10/09  An indictment accuses two former Pennsylvania judges of racketeering, bribery and extortion in connection with a $2.8 million scheme to funnel youth offenders to private detention centers.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32776723/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET

..7/17/09  Pa. youths want tainted convictions tossed... For years, prosecutors in northeastern Pennsylvania stood by and did nothing as a corrupt judge systematically violated the rights of more than 6,000 youth offenders who appeared in his courtroom, lawyers for some of the children asserted in court Friday. In one of the most egregious cases of judicial corruption ever seen, federal prosecutors charged Mark Ciavarella and another Luzerne County judge, Michael Conahan, with taking $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in privately owned lockups. The judges pleaded guilty to fraud and face more than seven years in prison. The state Supreme Court has already overturned hundreds of juvenile convictions involving low-level offenses. Friday's hearing — which took place in the same courtroom where Ciavarella heard juvenile cases — focused on youths convicted of more serious crimes. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090717/ap_on_re_us/us_courthouse_kickbacks

.10/27/09 - Exonerated after 14 years, inmate and his fiancée start life together at lasthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/27/chicago.love.innocence.2/index.html

.10/21/09   CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Megan Williams' shocking accusations initially strained the imagination: Seven white people beat her with sticks, forced her to eat feces, raped her and taunted her with racial slurs over several days in a ramshackle trailer in West Virginia.  - An attorney for a black woman who claimed torture by a white group in West Virginia says his client fabricated the story to get back at a boyfriend who had beaten her up.   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33414600/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET

.10/21/09 - Wrongfully convicted Boston man awarded $14M - BOSTON: A federal jury has awarded $14 million to a man who spent nearly 15 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted in the 1988 slaying of a 12-year-old Boston girl.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091021/ap_on_re_us/us_wrongful_conviction 

.9/10/09  DNA Testing Once Again Clears Wrongly Imprisoned Man (26 years) Mentally retarded suspect was coerced into confession...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32716443/from/ET

.9/10/09  Fl Man Freed After Wrongly Imprisoned for 26 Yrs  (Video)  http://video.aol.com/video-detail/fl-man-freed-after-wrongly-imprisoned-for-26-yrs/4045112729   .

9/10/09  MILWAUKEE A man who served 13 years in prison before his homicide conviction was overturned sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Thursday, days after authorities arrested a man whose DNA they say links him to the killing.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090910/ap_on_re_us/us_serial_killings_milwaukee

.8/20/09   A Virginia man who spent 22 years in prison for two rapes he did not commit will get more than $632,000 in restitution, following a unanimous decision Wednesday by state lawmakers.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32483798/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/from/ET

.8/17/09 Supreme Court grants Georgia death row inmate appeal:  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted an appeal by a man sentenced to death in Georgia for the murder of a policeman, ruling he should get a hearing to assess what he says is new evidence showing his innocence. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090817/us_nm/us_usa_crime_georgia


6/18/09  The U.S. Supreme Court says convicts have no constitutional right to test DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime.   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31426030/from/ET/ 
 

6/15/09...N.J. man to be freed after '87 convictions:  A federal judge in Newark, N.J., has cleared the way for a man convicted of two murders more than two decades ago to be freed from prison.
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5/23/09 Ill.  An inmate who claimed police tortured him into confessing to two murders he didn't commit was granted a new trial Friday after 18 years behind bars.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30893808/from/ET/

May 06, 2009  Gov. Sonny Perdue has approved a $500,000 payout for a Georgia man who spent almost three decades in prison before DNA tests cleared him of rape. http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Perdur%20approves%20500K.pdf

 

.5/13/09  Paul House, 47, spent 22 years on Tennessee death row for the rape and murder of his neighbor, Carolyn Muncey, in 1985. He left prison last year and was placed under house arrest after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that new DNA evidence could have led a jury to acquit him. He was scheduled to be retried next month when Union County District Attorney Paul Phillips announced Tuesday that he filed a petition to drop all charges against House.   http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6570948&eetype=article&render=y&ck=  .

April 16, 2009  Federal court rejects Troy Davis’ appeal: Killer gets 30-day stay of execution to pursue appeals: http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Troy%20Davis%20April%2016%2C%2009.pdf 

.4/2/09 DNA clears Conn. man jailed for 20 years: The Innocence Project, which is looking at more than 100 convictions in Connecticut, has access to more sophisticated DNA testing than was available in the late 1980s and early 1990s. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090402/ap_on_re_us/teen_murders 

.4/2/09  Testing has again failed to find DNA from a man who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row on evidence that will be used to retry him for a woman's murder, a lab report shows.   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29995765/from/ET/

 

.3/30/09 Wisconsin man faces murder charge in 1980 killing (see below)   http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6473459&eetype=article&render=y&ck=.

3/27/09 Husband of slain Wis. woman vindicated, angry after 28 years  http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6473459&eetype=article&render=y&ck= .3/18/09 UK man has murder conviction overturned Published  http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6456361&eetype=article&render=y&ck= 

.3/1/09    High court looks at prisoners' right to DNA test: According to The Innocence Project, which is affiliated with Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, Alaska is the only state where there is no known case of a prisoner receiving DNA testing after being convicted. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090228/ap_on_re_us/alaska_dna_test

.2/24/09 A judge in New York has dismissed all charges against a man who spent 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090224/ap_on_re_us/conviction_overturned  

.2/20/09  DNA from key evidence in a Tennessee woman's slaying does not match the man who spent more than two decades on death row for killing her, according to new FBI lab tests. Still, prosecutor Paul Phillips wants to retry House.   http://my.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=6401126&eetype=article&render=y&ck=

.Missouri man convicted of '92 slaying released: 2/18/09 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090219/ap_on_re_us/prosecutor_criticized    .

Small-town sheriff helps Mo. inmate (see above) win freedom: 2/20/09  The state's prosecution was based on the testimony of another suspect in Lawless' death who said he saw Kezer at a nearby convenience store on the night of the killing. But he gave conflicting testimony and three jail inmates who claimed Kezer had confessed to the killing later acknowledged lying in hopes of getting reduced sentences. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090220/ap_on_re_us/prosecutor_criticized .

Supreme Court says: Wrongfully convicted, man can't sue prosecutor http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090126/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_wrongful_conviction

.Man freed 23 years after wrongful conviction: 1/31/09  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28938985/from/ET/

Conviction reversed in 30-year-old death row case:  .1/15/09  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_us/texas_execution_appeal

.Man imprisoned for 20 years gets new trial: 12/20/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28316500/from/ET/   

Man's murder, rape convictions overturned After 19 years: 11/26/08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27913195/from/ET/ 

."Appeals Court To Hear Troy Davis Case" 11/20/08
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Exonerated inmates often don't have state help: 11/18/08
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Innocent Mo. man freed after 24 years files suit: 11/18/08  http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Innocent%20Man.pdf 

\Man cleared of murder after 10 years in prison: 10/28/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27424877/from/ET/ 

Execution delayed for convict in '89 Ga. killing: 10/24/08
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wrongly convicted World War II vet's family gets $28,000 in back pay:10/23/08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27347652/from/ET/ .

Ex-Chicago cop charged with lying about torture: 10/21/08
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Officials say Fingerprint errors led to false arrests; 1 fired, 3 suspended: 10/19/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27233798/from/ET/ 

.Smyrna man jailed 2 years before acquittal: 10/08/08 http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/2%20years%20before%20acquittal.pdf

.High court turns down Ga. death row inmate: 10/15/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27179641/from/ET/

.Supreme Court stays execution for Ga. man:  9/24/08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26842816/from/ET/    .Wrongly convicted man cleared after tests on stolen smoke reveal DNA link: 8/19/08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26285667/from/ET/

.DNA test frees convicted Ohio child rapist: 8/12/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26145142/from/ET/

.Race sometimes a problem in eyewitness IDs: 8/11/08  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26123421/from/ET/ 

.JULY 30, 2008: WRONGLY-CONVICTED WWII VET DIES AFTER APOLOGY http://www.jackhamann.com/features/ny_times_Wrongly_convicted_WWII_vet_dies_after_apology.html?ex=1217995200&en=e22ab686a3cf6cd9&ei=5070

.7/9/08 A Hyde Park man who was wrongly convicted of molesting a 6-year-old girl has filed a lawsuit against the state, seeking compensation for the 10 years he spent behind bars. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/09/wrongly_convicted_man_seeks_compensation/  .

Anthrax suspect's colleague blames FBI for suicide: 7/04/08
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Ex-Army scientist to get $5.8M in anthrax lawsuit - 6/27/08
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080627/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/anthrax_hatfill '

.Integrity unit' created for Texas justice issues: 6/4/08   http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Texas%20Justice.pdf 

.DNA clears man of rape after 12 years in prison : 5/29/08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860069/from/ET/

.Man Exonerated After Spending 40 Days In Prison On Murder Charges : 5/29/08
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A FEW OF THE WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN WRONGLY CONVICTED The first 7 women on this list were all victims of “frontier justice” dispensed by groups of white vigilantes, aka KKK.

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   The Nov. 21, 2006, killing of 92 year old Kathryn Johnston, shocked the nation and rocked Atlanta’s police force. It laid bare the corruption of an out-of-control narcotics squad that lied to get search warrants and planted drugs on suspects....Fulton County prosecutors were forced to review scores of pending cases and ultimately dismissed or reduced the charges in 69, meaning several likely criminals went free.   http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Kathryne%20Johnson%202-22-09.pdf   

     On February 24, 2009, U.S. District Judge Julie Carnes sentenced former officer Gregg Junnier to six years in prison, Jason Smith to 10 years in prison and Arthur Tesler to five years in prison...  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston#Sentencing .  

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   On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became the first civilians to be executed for espionage in U.S. history.   http://www.truveo.com/the-rosenbergs-execution/id/404973506      
  9/12/2008  Evidence of false testimony in released Rosenberg transcripts: WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly released grand jury transcripts add strong evidence to the argument that the conviction and execution of Ethel Rosenberg in the Cold War's biggest espionage case (1951) were based on perjured testimony. In recent years, one of the two key witnesses against Rosenberg recanted his testimony. It now appears that the other witness made up her testimony too. The witnesses were Ethel's brother and sister-in-law, David and Ruth Greenglass. Thanks to the work of a team of lawyers and historians, the government released the grand jury testimony that formed the basis for the charges against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-09-12-rosenbergs-perjury_N.htm?csp=34  

   Lena Baker Case - (1945 mugshot) Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be executed in Georgia's electric chair. She was executed in 1945, after she was convicted of murdering a man who had imprisoned her. At the time of Baker's execution, the Georgia prison system was under scrutiny for reform.  http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2917

Lena Baker - Ga. Woman Pardoned 60 Years After Her Execution by Kathy Lohr  August 26, 2005 A black maid executed in Georgia in 1945 is being granted a pardon by the state for killing a white man she said enslaved her. Lena Baker said she acted in self-defense, but a jury of white men convicted her after a one-day trial. Baker is the only woman to have been executed in the state's electric chair. On Aug. 30, Georgia authorities will present a proclamation to her descendants, including her grandnephew Roosevelt Curry, who led the drive to clear her name.    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818124

Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story A chronicle of the life, trial, and execution of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery. Sixty years after her death, Baker was pardoned posthumously by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles.

http://www.lenabakerthemovie.com/ 

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Joyce Ann Brown toasts and gives tribute to two decades of freedom November 5, 2009 (Dallas Texas)   For Joyce Ann Brown, November 3, 1989 will always be a day of ultimate freedom. That’s when Brown was released from prison after being incarcerated exactly nine years, five months and 24 days.  For a crime she did not commit.    http://dallasweekly.com/women/09-11-05_Joyce_Ann_Brown_toasts_and_gives_tribute_to_two_decades_of_freedom.php

 

 

    Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse judge has ordered the state to pay $250,000 to Shirley Kinge to compensate her for being wrongly prosecuted on faked evidence in the 1989 murders of a Dryden family. Court of Claims Judge Nicholas Midey Jr. indicated he took into consideration Kinge's loss of privacy and liberty in awarding her damages. She spent two years in prison before her conviction was overturned when it was revealed state police planted her fingerprint on a gasoline can to falsely implicate her in the crime   http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/shirley_kinge_awarded_250000_f.html  

 

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   Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a civil rights activist from Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama. One of the Klansmen in the car from which the shots were fired was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant.[1]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo

 

 

 

 The following account of the lynching of Laura and L. W. Nelson was drawn from Oklahoma papers: A teenage boy, L. W. Nelson, shot and killed Deputy George Loney, whose posse was searching the Nelson cabin for stolen meat. Laura Nelson, trying to protect her son, claimed to have shot Loney. http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/pics_34.html

.  Her innocence was determined weeks before the lynching. They went up to the female jail (a cage in the courthouse) and took the woman out." She was "very small of stature, very black, about thirty five years old, and vicious." Mother and son were hauled by wagon six miles west of town to a new steel bridge crossing the Canadian River "in a negro settlement," where they were "gagged with tow sacks" and hung from the bridge.   http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/pics_33.html

 

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  11/11/08 Woman Wrongly Convicted In Murder Case Released - She walked into the parole hearing a prisoner of the state of Nebraska, guilty of second-degree murder.  JoAnn Taylor walked out about 25 minutes later, no longer a prisoner, no longer a killer in the eyes of the law. She had just witnessed an extraordinary admission by the state that she was wrongly convicted of the 1985 murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice.  http://www.beatricedailysun.com/articles/2008/11/11/news/local/doc49199babc256e985336614.txt

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  Court Orders Ex-State Employee (woman) Freed From Prison: April 6, 2007     http://www.channel3000.com/news/11536803/detail.html

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   Cynthia Sommer - Wife cleared of murder 'overwhelmed with emotion'  : 4/22/08 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24254002/from/ET/

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   Lynn DeJac - Mother Exonerated After 13 Years in Prison:    2/14/08   BUFFALO (AP) — A woman who spent 13 years in prison after being convicted of strangling her 13-year-old daughter has been exonerated by forensic evidence showing she died of a cocaine overdose, a prosecutor in the case said Wednesday.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-13-exoneratedmom_N.htm

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     McCushla Fuataha (left), Lucy Akatere (centre) and Tania Vini. Picture / Adrian Malloch  $500,000 compo 'too little too late'  Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 - - The lawyer for three women wrongly convicted and jailed over an attack on a teenage girl has rejected as inadequate Government compensation for the trio.  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/three-kings/news/article.cfm?l_id=363&objectid=10405349 

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Man who claims innocence freed after 26 years: 4/19/08
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DNA Testing Exonerates Jailed Man, Detroit: 4/14/2008
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/15878495/detail.html?taf=det 

1.2M to man wrongly imprisoned: 04/02/08   http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/AJC%201.2%20mil.pdf 

.Inmate Freed After 14 Years on Death Row: 4/2/08
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.FBI Money Sought After Revenge Killings: 3/10/08  http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=5743685&eetype=article&render=y&ck=  
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Georgia Supreme Court throws out man's drug conviction 2/26/08
http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Dekalb%20Jury.pdf
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New Suspect Charged in 1992 Miss. Murder  2/8/08  http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?eeid=5683484&eetype=article&render=y&ck= 
  .January 14, 2008 Rickey Johnson, who spent nearly 26 years in prison for a Many, La. rape he did not commit, was released from custody today after DNA tests proved his innocence. http://www.ktbs.com/news/Wrongly-convicted-man-released-from-prison-7836/ D.

.A. filed a motion to dismiss murder charges against Tim Masters: 1/25/08 http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8079134  
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Wrongly accused at 17, Tankleff starts over at 36: 1/06/08
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/04/tankleff.freed.ap/index.html

.Fla. Man In Jail Nearly 28 Years Gets New Trial 1/17/2008  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27740886/   

.DNA test clears man of rape 26 years later: 1/4/08
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.Days before he left office in 2003, governor Ryan of Illinois commuted the sentences of all 167 death row inmates to life in prison. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14703115/from/ET/

.Wrongly Convicted? Man convicted of killing parents is freed on bail: 12/28/07
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.Article: Man wrongly convicted will get $355,000 : 11/28/07 http://www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/315429.html

.Lawsuite Filed in Wrongful Conviction; DNA Cleared Man in Prison for 10 Years
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DNA test frees man who served 30 years: 12/11/07  http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/DNA%2030%20years.pdf 

.man who remained in prison for 18 years after being wrongly convicted of child rape:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/charges_dismissed;_ylt=AtnahgSPu4n2jCun4YDaC8Os0NUE

.Hard lives for wives of men wrongly imprisoned: 08/17/07  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20305912/from/ET/  

.Government fined $101 million over convictions (July 27, 2007) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15012096/from/ET/ 

.Wrongful conviction draws lawsuit against U.S. (Nov 16, 2006) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15757471/from/ET/  

.1989 DEATH-PENALTY CASE: New questions cast doubt on conviction. 08/05/07 http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/1989%20death%20penalty.pdf 

.Death Penalty Scot's Sentence Overturned 08/10/07  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20070810/twl-death-penalty-scot-s-sentence-overtu-3fd0ae9_2.html  

.Parole board will hear witnesses in Davis case 7/25/07   http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/Parole%20Board%20%20II.pdf

.Georgia Supreme Court denies new trial for convicted cop killer: 4/14/08  http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/cop%20killer.pdf  .

11/13/07 Condemned killer Troy Anthony Davis today will get another chance to try to win a new trial based on testimony that suggests he did not kill a Savannah police officer in  1989   .http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/New%20Trial%20Davis-Poilice%20killing.pdf 

.Ex-death row inmate granted 'absolute pardon' http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19635849/from/ET/

.Report blames wrongful conviction on 'tunnel vision' of police, lawyers 7/3/07  http://georgehigh.com/George%20News/WRONGFUL%20CONVICTION%20Tunnell%20Vision.pdf   

.Man Jailed on Cop's Word Freed: 6/23/07 In the first of what is expected to be many, a Fulton County man convicted on testimony from one of the same officers charged with killing 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in a botched drug raid, was set free on Friday. http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=99068 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284077,00.html 

.Duke, Lacrosse Players Reach Settlement FOX News Straight Talk: Duke Case Shows Justice System's Flaws http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18715007/from/ET/  

.Man to get $5 million for wrongful conviction 5/17/07 http://georgehigh.com/gh/Flaws%20in%20the%20justice%20system.pdf 

.(May 15, 2007) DNA test frees man convicted of 2 child slayings
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.After  11 Years in Prison - including 16 on Death Row - Curtis McCarty is Exonerated  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269308,00.html 

.Jury Convicts Los Angeles Serial Killer for Murder of 10 Women, Including Fetus Monday, April 30, 2007: Before police identified Turner as a suspect, a mentally disabled janitor was wrongly convicted of three other slayings police believe are connected to Turner. Turner has not been charged with those murders. David Allen Jones, 44, was released in 2004, after 11 years in prison. He received $720,000 in compensation. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269308,00.html   

.(4/28/07) Third man in 1988 slaying is officially free  http://georgehigh.com/email%20and%20letters/third%20man%20freed.pdf 

Justice Deferred, Not Denied -- DNA Proof Clears 200th Victim of Wrongful Rape Conviction:  http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/dnaexonerations424
 

.Man exonerated by DNA is freed after 24 years: 1/26/06 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10995872/from/ET/  

.DNA evidence exonerates mentally ill man  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842849/from/ET/   .

Ex-inmate near execution awarded $14 million  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17075302/from/ET/   

.DNA frees N.Y., Ga. men from prison http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773884/from/ET/Arrest made in wrong conviction rape. Man freed had served 21 years http://georgehigh.com/gh/right%20arrest%2021.pdf   

.Man gets $4 million over wrong rape conviction  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16792320/from/ET/  

.Wrongful conviction draws lawsuit against U.S. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15757471/from/ET/   

A Chicago judge agreed Thursday to release a man serving a 20-year sentence for a 1992 rape that DNA tests showed he didn't commit.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15979010/from/ET/  

 

 

   Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country's first black president. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa's white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. The government outlawed the ANC in 1960. Mandela was captured and jailed in 1962, and in 1964 he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison. Instead of disappearing from view, Mandela became a prison-bound martyr and worldwide symbol of resistance to racism. South African President F.W. de Klerk finally lifted the ban on the ANC and released Mandela in 1990. Mandela used his stature to help dismantle apartheid and form a new multi-racial democracy, and he and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela was elected the country's president in 1994. He served until 1999, when he was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki. Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was published in 1994.  http://www.answers.com/topic/nelson-mandela   

Nelson Mandela released from Prison 20 years ago today  Feb. 11, 2010

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The system is broken and its up to the White House and the White Folks to fix it because they broke it. Since 1973, 123 innocent death row Inmates have been exonerated and set free. The convictions of 192 people across the country have been overturned by DNA tests since 1989. DNA evidence has cleared only a small percentage of those who have been wrongly convicted and they remain incarcerated. Page 240 Disfranchised  http://georgehigh.com/gh/the%20system%20is%20broken.pdf

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Please Sign Our Petition to Investigate Wrong Doing That Leads to the Wrongful Convictions" ... http://www.petitiononline.com/tis10001/ 

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Wrongful Conviction Websites                

Don’t Quit  http://georgehigh.com/gh/Don%27t%20Quit.pdf 

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  This site is dedicated to women who are in prison and have been wrongly convicted … imagine the distress of knowing each day of your is life passing by and you are completely innocent of the crime that you were convicted of. What a horrible thing to live with.  http://home.earthlink.net/~wronglyconvicted/index.html

Center on Wrongful Convictions: The staff of the Center on Wrongful Convictions pioneered the investigation and litigation of wrongful convictions - including the cases of eleven innocent men sentenced to death in Illinois. These efforts were a driving force behind both Governor George H. Ryan's decision to suspend executions in Illinois and the current nationwide movement to reform the criminal justice system.  http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/

Justice Denied: The only magazine in the country devoted to profiling stories of the wrongfully convicted Justice Denied is invaluable at increasing awareness of the wrong done in this country in the name of justice http://www.justicedenied.org/

 

Wrongful Conviction and Innocence Resources on the Internet: Many people have been falsely accused and wrongly convicted in our criminal justice system.This bibliography focuses on the key websites and resources concerning this important issue.  http://www.llrx.com/features/wrongfulconviction.htm#case%20profiles

 

The PATRICK CRUSADE is a human rights organization dedicated to the protection of human rights for all people. We believe human rights should be real for everyone simply because they are human beings. http://www.patrickcrusade.org/ 

America's Wrongfully Convicted ...This site is dedicated to those individuals, who, because of the selfish reasons of others who conspired for their false imprisonment resulting in malicious prosecution, judicial injustice and impropriety, prosecution for the sake of prosecution, lack of funds for legal aid to prove their innocence and/or other errors of one kind or another, have been wrongfully accused and wrongfully convicted of a crime which they did not commit and have been left to languish resulting in loss of liberty, civil rights, productive lifestyle, financial and personal ruin, mental anguish, social condemnation and personal and family embarrassment for the remainder of their lives.  http://www.americaswrongfullyconvicted.com/  

 The Georgia Innocence Project: Innocent people are serving a significant portion of their lives in prison for crimes they did not commit. These innocent people need someone to care about justice and to assist them in gaining their freedom. http://www.ga-innocenceproject.org/

Welcome to INNOCENT! a Christian-based non-profit organization, refers prison inmates and their families to a national network of Innocence organizations following receipt and review of claims of wrongful conviction. Utilizing expertise in the media and in community organization, INNOCENT increases public awareness of legitimate claims of innocence and problems associated with wrongful convictions. http://www.aboutinnocent.org

Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CUADP): If you are familiar with the Sheppard /murder case, you know that it is not difficult to get railroaded in the United States. We as a people, and the media in particular, have a responsibility to the public to expose wrongful convictions. http://www.cuadp.org/pris/pot.html 


  The Wrongful Convictions Project: Mission and Purpose: The Wrongful Convictions Project is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice. http://www.wrongfulconvictions.com/ 

MID-ALANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT D.C. attorneys seeking the exoneration of persons who have been convicted of crimes that they did not commit. Contains facts about wrongful convictions, sources of conviction error, public opinion, and related news.  http://www.exonerate.org/facts/

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Truth in Justice is an educational non-profit organized to educate the public regarding the vulnerabilities in the U. S. criminal justice system that make the criminal conviction of wholly innocent persons possible.  http://www.truthinjustice.org/.

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