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Tag: False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments
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Man Cleared of Murder After More Than 48 Years in Prison
Glynn Simmons, 70, of Oklahoma, was exonerated after a 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, prosecutors said. He served the longest wrongful sentence in the United States.
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He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.
Karen Dannett hardly knew her father. But freeing the man imprisoned for killing him became a decades-long mission.
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Ex-NYPD Detective’s Overturned Murder Convictions Have Cost New York $110 Million
Louis N. Scarcella, a former N.Y.P.D. detective, was accused of framing dozens of people for murder. The city and state have paid a steep price to settle claims over the past decade.