All tagged conviction overturned
Prosecutors with the Office of the State’s Attorney For Baltimore City have dropped charges against Adnan Syed in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Syed was released on his own recognizance on September 19 while the State Attorney’s Office decided whether or not to re-try him based on new DNA evidence.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn approved a motion by prosecutors Monday to overturn Adnan Syed’s murder conviction in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee. Syed’s case gained national attention after it was focused on the podcast Serial.
Barry Gilton and Lupe Mercado took the law into their own hands in 2012, hunting down and murdering Calvin Sneed, who’d allegedly pimped their teenage daughter. There’s a reason the legal system upholds the principle of ‘innocent until guilty,’ but the fantasy of the hero vigilante is hard to shake.
Justine Ruszczyk called 911 to reported a suspected sexual assault in an alley behind her house. When two officers were dispatched to the scene, they were startled by a noise, and Mohamed Noor shot the unarmed woman from the passenger’s seat.
A Los Angeles County Jury has found Bill Cosby guilty of sexually abusing a minor in 1975.
Shot in the stomach, 27-year-old Marshae Jones lost her fetus, and didn’t expect to risk losing her freedom as well. But when the jury dropped manslaughter charges against her shooter, 23-year-old Ebony Jemison, they indicted Jones instead for the crime of her own miscarriage.
William Earl Talbott II was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in July 2019 for the 1987 murders of Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Jay Cook.Talbott's conviction hinged on DNA evidence and investigative techniques that match DNA profiles from public genealogy databases. But a Washington state appellate court ruled Monday that one of the trial jurors demonstrated bias during the jury selection process with regards to her own experiences with violence and abuse.
