Needs to be WAY more specific…
As opposed to conventionally corrupt.
Two witnesses against them at trial.
One who is deaf and was confused by the ASL interpreter. He though he was testifying about another case. The other was coerced by cops
I don’t know anything about this website, but the first line in the report is that it was shared by an anonymous reader. Is there any backup on this story? Before I get all, you know, exercised about it?
Slashdot is one of the original tech news aggregation sites, of which slashdotting derived from:
But the article links to Propublica, which I probably should have linked to instead:
So yes this is a legitimate news story.
ninja’d
OK, thanks for the explanation.
Here’s a direct link to the ProPublica story
DNA tested in 2021 clears man who spent 38 years in prison. When he asked for a test of that DNA 23 years ago, they ‘couldn’t find it’. I wonder when they found it.
From an earlier article:
The two young men were offered a plea deal of 15 years in prison but they maintained their innocence throughout.
So instead they went to trial and got 11 consecutive life sentences.
The exonerating evidence was disclosed during a 2017 parole hearing for one of Saldana’s codefendants, who told the parole board that not only did Saldana not participate in the shooting, but he wasn’t present at the time, Gascón said. The new information was not shared with Saldana or his attorney, Gascón said. It wasn’t until February that the statement from the parole hearing was presented to Gascón’s office by California’s Board of Parole Hearings
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/us/los-angeles-daniel-saldana-prison-sentence-exonerated/index.html
In each case, she was the person who found their bodies, though there was no physical evidence that she had caused their deaths. Instead, the jury relied on the prosecution’s argument that the chances of four babies from one family dying from natural causes before the age of 2 were so infinitesimally low as to be compared to pigs flying…
But another inquiry began last year after new scientific evidence emerged that provided a genetic explanation for the children’s deaths.
Miscarriage of Justice?!
I guess a dingo really did eat her babies.
Later evidence and further autopsy concluded that Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton’s daughter Azaria really was killed by a dingo.
I learned today from listening to NPR that Australia does not have an independent review board for convictions, which is one reason why it can be so difficult for people to be pardoned and/or for convictions to be overturned. Kathleen Folbigg was wrongfully convicted and had to wait 20 years for exoneration. A similar case in the UK involved a woman who was convicted under very similar circumstances just a few years before Folbigg was, however that woman was released after a few years on appeal.
(Sadly, the trauma of being wrongly convicted severely damaged the woman’s psyche, and only a few years after being released from prison she literally drank herself to death.)
I really cannot imagine the horror of having your children die one after another, and then having the whole world think you killed them.
10 years in jail - waiting for trial (and more to come)
On Monday, a hung jury declared it was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of Maurice Jimmerson, the Georgia man who has been behind bars for 10 years while awaiting trial.
Jimmerson was remanded back to jail while he waits for a hearing next week about a possible reduction in bond. Because there was no verdict, Jimmerson could likely face an entire new trial.
Jimmerson’s co-defendant, Condell Benyard, who was incarcerated for seven years while awaiting trial. He was found not guilty of all 26 charges brought against him. Jimmerson also faced 26 charges.
Jimmerson’s attorney, Andrew Fleischman, said his client’s incarceration is the longest pretrial detention in Georgia history and the second longest in U.S. history. Fleischman is representing Jimmerson for free as a result of the coverage of the case from Atlanta News First Investigates.
“I’m old fashioned,” Fleischman said. “I think people should be convicted of a crime before they’re punished. This is an unprecedented case. This is about a core constitutional right, the right to a speedy trial. The right to due process. And, when you see people denied that right, the public needs to know about it.”