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Wrongful Conviction News for 2010  After steadily
increasing over the preceding decade, the rate of exonerations in the
U.S. seems to have slowed. We do not necessarily view this as a
positive sign. There was a rush of DNA-based exonerations, but it is
harder now to find cases in which DNA evidence can prove innocence, or
in which such physical evidence still exists. Authorities in many
parts of the country have redoubled efforts to preserve convictions by
attacking messengers, the individuals who uncover evidence of innocence
and seek exoneration of the wrongly convicted. In Illinois, for
example, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has defended
convictions by subpoenaing
notes and other investigatory materials developed by journalism
students with the Medill Innocence Project. In Columbus,
Ohio, the police department announced a new policy
regarding access to police records, clearly designed to halt
uncovering embarassing police misconduct. The public (including
investigators and post-conviction defense attorneys) cannot access
police records until the inmate has been executed or released from
prison. Speaking of post-execution exoneration, by mid-year, the Texas Forensic Science Commission was
poised to issue a report concluding -- as did the forensic experts the
Commission retained to advise it -- that Cameron Todd Willingham was
executed for a fatal fire that was not arson. Gov. Rick Perry fired the most
"troublesome" members of the Commission and replaced them with
folks that he says will "have
the right answers," and who agree with Perry that Willingham "was a
monster."
While we don't have as many cases to report each month as we did just a few years ago, the exonerations reported here are hard won. The innocent people still imprisoned whose cases are profiled here represent merely the tip of the iceberg -- the few fortunate enough to have caught the attention of journalists, private investigators and/or innocence projects who have uncovered compelling evidence of innocence. Some of the systemic failures that lead to wrongful convictions -- mistaken eyewitness identification, for example -- are being addressed, but with a patchwork approach that does little to rectify the problem. Police, prosecutor and judicial misconduct continues apace, under the guise of being "tough on crime." Their motto is "I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro and Manitowoc (WI) Assistant DA Mike Griesbach wrote painfully honest books that examine the fallacies and prejudices that underlie wrongful convictions, as well as the repercussions that destroy lives. They are, unfortunately, exceptions in their insights and their candor. Whether exonerations ebb or flow, we will continue to profile them here. This is, first and foremost, a resource for the innocent. And while these people fade from public memory, their stories remain permanently relevant, and permanently available on our website.
Judge Declares Death
Penalty Unconstitutional
A
Houston judge on Thursday granted a pretrial motion declaring the death
penalty unconstitutional, saying he believes innocent people have been
executed. “Based on the moratorium (on the death penalty) in
Illinois, the Innocence Project and more than 200 people being
exonerated nationwide, it can only be concluded that innocent people
have been executed,” state District Judge Kevin Fine said. “It's safe
to assume we execute innocent people.”
Unfortunately, Judge Fine reversed himself a few days later. It's safe to assume we can't bring those innocent people who have been executed back to life. Hank Skinner, who was eating his last meal when the justices stayed his execution in March, says a Texas prosecutor is violating his civil rights by not turning over DNA evidence that Skinner says will prove his innocence. The high court agreed Monday to hear the case. Skinner was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for killing his live-in girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two mentally impaired adult sons. Skinner said he was passed out on the couch the night of the slayings after consuming alcohol and Xanax and could not have committed the murders. In hearing Skinner's case, the nine justices could decide whether prisoners are empowered to file federal civil-right lawsuits to force DNA testing after their convictions. The decision could give hundreds of prisoners a powerful legal avenue involving DNA evidence, legal experts say. The U.S. Supreme Court on June 14, 2010 sympathized with a Florida death row inmate whose lawyer missed a deadline for his habeas appeal and failed to communicate with him for years despite numerous written pleas for help. By a 7-2 vote in Holland v. Florida, the Court said that the lawyer's misconduct may entitle convicted murderer Albert Holland to "equitable tolling," or a delay in what otherwise would have been a one-year statute of limitation for filing the appeal under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. The lawyer's failures, wrote Justice Stephen Breyer for the majority, "seriously prejudiced a client who thereby lost what was likely his single opportunity for habeas review." In April, 2007, an infant suffered cardiac arrest shortly after arriving at the day care operated by Lisa Randall in suburban Phoenix, Arizona. He was rushed to the hospital but died a few days later. In November of that year, Lisa Randall was indicted by a grand jury for murder, based on the testimony of pediatricians who said the baby died due to blunt force trauma to his head. When former DA Andrew Thomas faced stiff opposition in his bid for re-election, he upped the ante by seeking the death penalty against Lisa. He lost, but Lisa still faced being sentenced to death. Finally, three years after the child's death, two defense experts and a prosecution expert agreed that the child died from natural causes, and the charges against Lisa Randall were dismissed. The pending execution of Troy Anthony Davis, scheduled to take place on July 17, 2007, is raising serious questions about his guilt — and about the Newt Gingrich-era federal law that has limited his appeals options and prevented him, say his supporters, from getting a fair shake. UPDATE: On July 16, 2007, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Troy Davis a 90-day reprieve. UPDATE: On April 16, 2009, in a 2-1 opinion, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Davis could not establish by clear and convincing evidence a jury would not have found him guilty. Tom Dunn, one of Davis’ lawyers, said he was disappointed, but would fight on. “Troy is innocent and this struggle is far from over.” UPDATE: May 20, 2009 -- Twenty-seven former judges, justices and prosecutors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow death-row inmate Troy Davis’ innocence claims to be heard in federal court. Group asks Supreme Court to send death row case back to federal court. UPDATE: August 17, 2009 -- U.S. Supreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis UPDATE: August 25, 2010 -- Davis failed to prove innocence, rules federal judge UPDATE: November 5, 2010 -- A federal appeals court panel deflected a condemned Georgia inmate's appeal of a ruling that denied him a new trial in a decades-old murder case, saying that the appeal should have gone to the U.S. Supreme Court instead. Strapped to a gurney in Texas' death
chamber in February, 2004, just moments from his execution for setting
a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham
declared his innocence one last time. "I am an innocent man, convicted of a
crime I did not commit," Willingham said angrily. "I have been
persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do." Four fire
cause and origin experts -- Gerald Hurst, John Lentini, John DeHaan and
Kendall Ryland -- agree. "There's nothing to suggest to any
reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire," said Hurst,
a Cambridge University-educated chemist who has investigated scores of
fires in his career. "It was just a fire."
UPDATE
(In pdf format - Includes Report
and Supporting Documentation)
UPDATE - August 15, 2008 Texas Panel to Probe Findings That Led to Willingham's Execution UPDATE - September 14, 2010 Reconstituted Texas Panel Set to Whitewash Willingham Execution Representatives from The Connecticut Innocence Project, a division of the state public defender services, have collected evidence in the case of Erik C. Rasmussen, who was 25 in 1990 when a jury convicted hm of murdering his wife, 22-year-old Loreli T. Rasmussen. Rasmussen, who has maintained his innocence since his arrest, would be the first case examined with the help of a nearly $1.5 million post-conviction DNA federal grant awarded collectively to the Connecticut Innocence Project, Office of the Chief State’s Attorney and state forensic science laboratory. In 1985, Cress was convicted of raping and battering Battle Creek, MI teenager Patty Rosansky, leaving her body in a trash-filled ravine. Since then, his case has been argued through state and federal courts in a bewildering history of lost and destroyed evidence, contrary confessions from an Arkansas killer, pleas by a U.S. senator and demands of prosecutors and the Rosansky family that he never go free. Now his bid for release is before the board that will advise Gov. Jennifer Granholm. Steve Haddock visits the grave of his mother, Barbara, a few times a year at the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Lenexa,KS. The plot next to Barbara is reserved for Steve’s father, Ken. The inscription on the headstone reads “Ken and Barbie Forever.” In a complicated legal case, Steve and his two sisters, Jen and Jody, have been fighting for the release of their father for nearly two decades, never losing faith in his innocence. “There was never, ever any thought in our minds that our dad could have done this,” Steve said. Mr. VonAllmen spent 11 years in prison for a 1981 abduction and rape he has always insisted he did not do. Although he has been outside prison walls for 16 years, he is still willing to risk being found guilty again in order to clear his name -- and the Kentucky Innocence Project is helping him. Bennett was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in 1984 for the murder of his neighbor, Helen Nardi the year before. He has long maintained his innocence. He passed a lie detector test. He could not be tied to the case by a rape kit examination. And several people testified he was elsewhere when Nardi was sexually assaulted and murdered. The state attorney's office used a familiar strategy in convicting Bennett -- employing testimony from dog handler John Preston in combination with a jailhouse snitch who came forward in return for promises of leniency. There is no DNA in the Bennett case, but a strong case for his innocence nonetheless. Justice was on trial last week in a small town in northwest Missouri. For three days, a circuit judge was shown what happens when police officers give inaccurate testimony, prosecutors distort facts and a defense lawyer doesn't do his job. The case concerned Dale Helmig, who is serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of his mother, Norma Helmig. Her body, weighted with a cinder block, was found in the flooded Osage River between Jefferson City and Linn on Aug. 1, 1993. The lead prosecutor then was Kenny Hulshof of Columbia, who later became a U.S. representative and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2008. When Gov. Jay Nixon was state attorney general, Hulshof was Nixon's special prosecutor. Hulshof would go around the state helping local prosecuting attorneys with difficult murder cases. He often got convictions. Since then, some have turned out to be tainted and were overturned. Helmig's may be next. The Neal Rankin murder case has confounded Akron, Ohio authorities for 17 years — and could be reopened through the science of DNA testing. It took Akron police 15 months to make the first arrest in the Rankin case, and when it was announced in May 1994, the commander of the homicide unit told reporters: ''We had 45 suspects the first day.'' In fact, aggravated murder charges would be filed and dismissed against others before the final suspect, Dewey Amos Jones III, was convicted for the slaying of Rankin, a 71-year-old Goodyear retiree. Now the case is returning to the Summit County justice system in the aftermath of a judge's order to conduct DNA testing — for the first time — on preserved samples of biological evidence from the crime scene. A
three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals revived an
appeal by George A. Souliotes, convicted of setting a 1997 fire that
killed a woman and her two children, even though his lawyers missed a
legal deadline in filing it. Souliotes'
prosecution relied heavily on evidence that the fire was started with a
flammable liquid and that its residues were found on Souliotes' shoes.
A scientist years later showed that the substance on the shoes was
different from what was found at the fire. That evidence proves
Souliotes is innocent.
Greg
Brown Jr., 33, of Pittsburgh, PA who has been in state prison since
1997, serving three consecutive life prison terms, claims that he has
new evidence that shows that two witnesses who received reward money
after the trial did not disclose potential payment at trial and that
the fire on Bricelyn Street in Homewood wasn't arson. That evidence
came as a result of an investigation conducted by the Innocence
Institute of Point Park University.
Reynold Moore, 62, one of six men convicted in October 1995 of being party to the murder of Tom Monfils in a Green Bay, WI paper mill,has enlisted the aid of the Wisconsin Innocence Project in seeking a new trial. The new evidence in Moore's appeal concerns testimony by James Gilliam, a prison inmate who had testified at trial that Moore told him in jail that he participated in a group beating of Monfils at a water fountain in the mill. WIP attorney Byron Lichstein claims Gilliam has since changed his story and now says Moore actually told him that Moore stepped in to try to prevent the beating, not to participate in it. Without Gilliam's jailhouse snitch testimony, there is no evidence connecting Moore to Monfils' death. UPDATE: On January 21, 2010, Rey Moore's petition for a new trial was denied. Related
In 1995, Michael Johnson, Mike Piaskowski, Keith Kutska, Michael Hirn, Dale Basten and Rey Moore were convicted of killing co-worker Tom Monfils in 1992 in a Green Bay, WI paper mill. In 2001, Mike Piaskowski was freed when his habeas petition was granted. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Terrance Evans upheld his exoneration, saying that the "record is devoid of any direct evidence that Piaskowski participated in the beating of Monfils." The same evidence that cleared Mike, clears the other five defendants. So why are they still in prison? Chad Evans is serving a 43 years-to-life sentence at the state prison in Concord, New Hampshire. He was convicted of murder in the death of 21-month-old Kassidy Bortner, who died in November, 2000. But he said new material, including DNA evidence, has come to light in his case.
More innovation in Illinois to chill journalist investigations. In 1994, Carolyn Nielsen was a graduate student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism when she wrote stories that questioned the trial and subsequent murder conviction of a 14-year-old Chicago boy. Nothing came of it then. The boy, Thaddeus Jimenez, was sent to prison and Nielsen went on to become an assistant professor of journalism at Western Washington University. But Ms. Nielsen's work got the attention of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and their efforts led to his exoneration in May of 2009. Now that he's sued the cops who framed him, the police defense lawyers want Ms. Nielsen's notes from 1994. The Wrong Man. In the fall of 2001, a nation reeling from the horror of 9/11 was rocked by a series of deadly anthrax attacks. As the pressure to find a culprit mounted, the FBI, abetted by the media, found one. The wrong one. This is the story of how federal authorities blew the biggest anti-terror investigation of the past decade—and nearly destroyed an innocent man. Here, for the first time, the falsely accused, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, speaks out about his ordeal. A pawn in a legal chess match. Shirley Ree Smith of Van Nuys, CA spent 10 years behind bars for the death of her grandson before her conviction was overturned. Now she waits on skid row as the courts sort out whether a jury's verdict — even if wrong — must prevail. City of Columbus, Ohio halts post-appeal release of records. Truth in Justice Board Member Martin Yant tells us: Here's another example of how police are trying to keep people from investigating wrongful convictions. In three of my exoneration cases, the courts overturned the convictions specifically because of undisclosed documents I obtained with public-records requests. Public-records requests provided good leads in most of my other cases, including the Clarence Elkins case. (Melinda Elkins volunteered to write a letter to the editor to point this out.) A recently filed new-trial motion based on an undisclosed exculpatory document A recently filed new-trial motion based on an undisclosed exculpatory document I obtained through a records request apparently is what spurred the prosecutor to shut off the police department's records. I went to the Columbus Dispatch after our supposedly liberal mayor didn't respond to the letter I sent him. I'm glad I did. The story has generated support, including from the founder of blockparole.com, who has used records requests to get information that he used to stop inmates he felt didn't deserve parole. He says this policy will put his group out of business. Also as a result of this story, the attorney I asked to file a writ of mandamus is reconsidering my request. Newspapers still have a powerful role in our digital world.
Massachusetts. Frankly, we never thought we would see it happen. Between 1991 and 1993, Boston U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn concealed evidence that might have cleared Vincent Ferrara and Pasquale Barone of murder charges. No big deal. Business as usual. In 2005, the USDOJ Office of Professional Responsibility found Auerhahn acted with "reckless disregard of discovery obligations," but all he "suffered" was a private reprimand. But Auerhahn's conduct has been referred to a state agency, and he'll face a 3-judge disciplinary panel. The Tide is Turning. Click HERE for the back story. North Carolina. State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) agent Michael Deaver stands with a foot in each camp -- junk science and egregious police misconduct. He can take a great deal of credit for Greg Taylor's conviction for a crime he didn't commit, because Deaver selectively reported -- and testified to -- finding blood in Taylor's truck, when he knew that more sophisticated tests showed the substance wasn't blood at all. SBI Director Robin Pendergraft stands behind Deaver, but there is a growing call across the state: Re-examine Old Cases. Maryland. In Baltimore, Donnie Chestnut's trial was delayed 15 times. Small wonder. The state had no basis for the drug charges filed against him, and no justification for shooting him four times. He was acquitted -- and filed suit the same day. New Jersey. An assistant Camden County prosecutor accused of withholding evidence resigned after prosecutors agreed they never turned over all the information required when a Camden man charged with murder tried to prove his innocence. Harry Collins, who has been with the office for more than 15 years, resigned after the prosecution of Perman Pitman came under scrutiny. Pitman was freed last month shortly after officials discovered a handwritten note by Collins that said a witness had been paid to lie. "Please destroy this note." Florida. Now that Anthony Caravella's conviction for the 1983 rape and murder of Ada Cox Jankowski has been tossed by DNA, officials there are forced to face the fact that now-retired Sheriff's Deputy Tony Fantigrassi 's real talent was extracting false confessions from innocent people. And then there's the crime lab. A legacy of corruption. New York. The trial judge should have caught this, but instead put his seal of approval on a coerced Alford plea by Rashjeem Richardson and sent him to prison for a knife attack someone else committed. Rochester prosecutors said four witnesses identified Mr. Richardson, when only one did so, and she retracted the next day because she had been drunk when she fingered him. When faced with a choice between a conviction and truth,prosecutors in Rochester choose a conviction. New York. In vacating a murder conviction and barring prosecutors from retrying the case, a federal judge in New York has lashed out at the Brooklyn district attorney's Office for failing to take responsibility for its prosecutors' alleged misconduct. At a contentious, 90-minute habeas corpus hearing on June 8, 2010, Eastern District Judge Dora L. Irizarry noted that petitioner Jabbar Collins, a renowned jailhouse attorney, had uncovered numerous documents while serving his 34-years-to-life sentence suggesting that prosecutors had withheld evidence, coerced witnesses and lied to the court and the jury. The DA's wagons are circled. Wisconsin. The Office of Lawyer Regulation wants to publicly reprimand Outagamie County District Attorney Carrie Schneider, saying she didn’t disclose a plea offer made to a witness and allowed the witness to lie under oath about it. The allegations against Schneider stem from a complaint filed in 2007 by Sheila Martin Berry, the former victim/witness coordinator for Winnebago County who runs Truth In Justice, an organization that publicizes wrongful convictions and misconduct by police and prosecutors. DAs rarely disciplined in Wisconsin. New York. Prosecutors' failure to disclose that hypnosis was used to help a witness recover memories of alleged sex abuse as a child does not invalidate a defendant's guilty plea, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant the habeas petition sought by Jesse Friedman, who was seeking to undo his 1988 guilty plea in a molestation case that rocked Nassau County, N.Y., and became the subject of the documentary "Capturing the Friedmans." While the Court denied the appeal, the judges urged the Nassau DA to reopen the case. In the interest of justice. Wisconsin. In response to the title of an article posted (below) just a few weeks ago, about the rarity of discipline for Wisconsin prosecutors, we can only add: "You're darn tootin'!" Both the Office of Lawyer Regulation and the Wisconsin Department of Justice determined in 2009 that it was neither unethical nor illegal for Calumet County DA Ken Kratz to send sexually charged text messages to the victim of a vicious domestic abuse case he was prosecuting. His conduct doesn't look so good in daylight. The rats who covered for him have deserted his sinking ship, but remember: The people now prosecuting Kratz are the same ones who covered for him. UPDATE: Kratz resigned from his post as Calumet County DA on October 1, 2010. Missouri. A northwest Missouri judge has ordered all evidence thrown out in a decade-old murder case in which a former Kansas City attorney is accused of beating his law partner to death in their downtown office. This is some of the most egregious prosecutorial misconduct documented by a court in a long time. When the defense says "show me," the prosecution says "no." California. Only a tiny percentage of prosecutors who engaged in misconduct were disciplined by the State Bar of California during a 12-year period, according to a report released October 4, 2010. Among 707 cases between 1997 and 2009 in which courts explicitly determined that prosecutors had committed misconduct, only six prosecutors -- 0.8% -- were disciplined by the State Bar of California. Only 10 of the 4,741 disciplinary actions by the state bar during the same period involved prosecutors. "Preventable Error: A Report on Prosecutorial Misconduct 1997-2009," issued by the Innocence Project's Northern California chapter, was written by Kathleen Ridolfi and Maurice Possley, a visiting research fellow at the project. Possley won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting at the Chicago Tribune. Ridolfi is a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. Click HERE to download the full report (pdf format).
False Allegations of Child Abuse Shaken Baby Syndrome An
acquittal should have brought Brian Kalinowski's nightmare to an end.
Instead, it continues for the 33-year-old Palatine, IL man found not
guilty of shaking and seriously injuring his infant son.
Kalinowski and his wife, who has not been implicated in any wrongdoing,
still face charges they abused and neglected their son, says defense
attorney Lawrence Lykowski. This despite a finding of not guilty from
Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Etchingham. A spokeswoman for the
Cook County State's Attorney confirmed an abuse case against the couple
is pending in juvenile court. They'll get you one
way or another.
False
Allegations of Sexual Abuse
In
2008, Waynesville, NC resident Donald “Pete” McCracken Jr., 40, was
indicted on a charge of first-degree rape — a B1 felony that, at the
time, carried a minimum sentence of 16 years in prison, with a maximum
sentence of up to life without parole. Almost
14 months later, the alleged victim recanted the accusation and the
charge against McCracken was dismissed. He was declared innocent. But
it cost him more than $100,000 and a “year of hell” to clear his name.
Still, he fears his reputation may be tainted beyond repair. The high cost of
innocence.Daniel Velez walked into Superior in Milford, CT on April 29, 2010, accused of committing vile acts against a child, but walked out a free man, exonerated of all charges against him. At the end of a four-day trial, a jury deliberated for just two hours before finding Velez, 45, of New Haven, CT, innocent of raping a 9-year-old male relative in the boy’s West Haven home. But the allegation alone is poison. Links on the Tonya Craft witch hunt in Catoosa County, Georgia: Truth for Tonya and William L. Anderson Blog
FIVE TEXAS ARSON CASES UNDER SCRUTINY Five men charged with
crimes that never happened. Five men's lives ruined. Two
men freed. One man executed. Two innocent men still locked
up. This doesn't just happen in Texas. It happens
everywhere. It can happen to anyone. It can happen to YOU.
Man sentenced to life in prison will get to argue his innocence A
three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals revived an
appeal by George A. Souliotes, convicted of setting a 1997 fire that
killed a woman and her two children, even though his lawyers missed a
legal deadline in filing it. Souliotes'
prosecution relied heavily on evidence that the fire was started with a
flammable liquid and that its residues were found on Souliotes' shoes.
A scientist years later showed that the substance on the shoes was
different from what was found at the fire. That evidence proves
Souliotes is innocent.
Toledo, Ohio Area Restaurateur Acquitted of Arson Former restaurant
owner Charles Bryan, Jr. was charged with arson and insurance fraud for
a fire that destroyed his and 7 other businesses in Wauseon, Ohio in
2007. The charges were based not on science, not on physical
evidence, but on nothing more than speculation that he might
financially gain from the fire. Judge Charles Wittenberg ruled
that the state failed to prove that Mr. Bryan had financial
problems. (Of course, the cost of defending himself has probably
bankrupted him.)
Notorious Lowell arson case cast in doubt Link: Mike Ledford: Innocent in Prison Rose Kate Roseborough
On
April 23, 2003, Rose was sleeping on the sofa in her living room in
Ashland, Ohio when she awoke to find a fire on the home's second
floor. She tried to rescue her 11-month-old twin daughters, Lucie
and Julia, but was driven back by the heavy smoke. The children
died of smoke inhalation. Rose was charged with arson and 2
counts of murder, and the death penalty was sought. The key
evidence offered at trial was the "expert" testimony of EMT Kevin
Rosser, who claimed that he noticed "large particle soot" on Rose's
face at the fire scene. Holding himself out as a fire expert,
Rosser opined that such soot is only produced in the early stages of a
fire, meaning Rose set the fire herself. The presiding judge
refused to conduct a Dauberthearing on the scientific
validity of EMT Rosser's testimony. Rose was convicted and
sentenced to life without parole. Fortunately, Judge James D.
Sweeney recognized junk science proffered by an unqualified
witness. He has vacated Rose's conviction and ordered a new
trial. Click HERE to read his January 7,
2009 opinion.
UPDATE: The State of Ohio appealed Judge Sweeney's order for a new trial, alleging that he abused his discretion in so doing. On April 23, 2010, the Ohio Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Sweeney's reversal of Kate's conviction. Gerald Hurst, Ph.D. A one-man arson innocence project
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