Criminal cases in which the accused innocent people

An interesting overview of the most absurd investigations of criminal cases in which the guilty were found completely innocent people. Read more paradoxical few cases of this theme.

Daryl Hunt

Race relations - this is a very sensitive issue, and it was he who
He appeared in the case of Daryl Hunt, an African American from the city of Winston-Salem
in North Carolina. At the age of nineteen, he was accused of raping and murdering a white woman by the name of Deborah Sykes, despite the fact that there was no evidence linking him to the crime. Even in the absence of evidence, the jury, consisting only of white, sentenced him to imprisonment.
In 1994, he was cleared of rape charges because DNA examination showed his innocence to it. However, although rape was a major accusation, he spent nine years in prison, is a Willard Brown has not confessed to the two crimes.
After a total of 19 years in prison, he was finally rehabilitated in 2004.
Coming from prison, he joined the project and founded the Innocence Project Derila Hunt for freedom and justice, as well as the Society of the struggle for
freedom Derila Hunt to help people wrongly accused of serious crimes.





Arthur Allan Thomas

It would be great if the fake evidence and mockery
suspects existed only in the movies, right?
Unfortunately for Arthur Allan Thomas, these things are very real, and in 1971
they have led to charges of Thomas in two crimes,
that he did not commit. A man and a woman, Jeanette and Harvey Crewe were killed
at home in Waikato, New Zealand. It later emerged,
that the police planted a rifle sleeve Thomas in the garden belonging to murdered spouses.
Thomas was convicted twice for the same offense after losing an appeal.
In the end, it took a matter of the Royal Commission,
who discovered the suspicious actions of the police during
the investigation, according to Thomas police also used
his testimony against him. Thomas was released over 30 years ago,
but his family still cries out for justice,
pushing lawsuits against police officers who investigated his case.
But now it is useless, because both of them are dead.



Richard Jewell

Unlike the rest of our list, Richard Jewell never
accused of a crime, but he was on the list,
because in 1996 he was one of the people with the worst reputation in the world.
It happened at the Olympic Games in Atlanta,
when, during a solemn ceremony in the park bomb exploded.
The FBI began to suspect it is Jewell.
At this time, Jewell was 34 years old, and he worked as a security guard.
He noticed a suspicious package on the territory of the Olympic Village and reported
management of it. Shortly afterwards, a bomb exploded, killing one
person was killed and more than a hundred injured.
In fact, he became the prime suspect in the bombing,
simply because they did their job, and he was immediately named the villain.
In October of the same year it officially cleared of all suspicion, even though the public
still I considered him guilty.
As in many other cases, false accusations, the case has shed light Jewell
some unscrupulous police work,
For example, the FBI questioned him on the pretext of recording an instructional video, which is also,
If you have not guessed, it was fiction.



Thomas Kennedy

Ask any father - children are a big problem. Especially naughty
they behave in private with someone a parent,
but Thomas Kennedy could not even imagine how shocking can come
his own child until he was sentenced
to fifteen years in prison for the heinous crime he had, as it turned out, he did not commit.
He was imprisoned for rape, in which he accused the eleven daughter Cassandra.
Nine years later, Cassandra finally admitted that she had lied about the rape,
Thomas and rehabilitated.
Perhaps you are interested in, that could cause the daughter to come up with a dirty
the story of his own father.
According to her, she was upset because of the fact that he paid her enough attention.
But it seems to me, to send him to prison for fifteen years - not the best solution.



Donald Marshall ml.

If you are 17 and you are accused of murder and sentenced to imprisonment,
it is quite difficult to bear.
Especially if you are innocent, and even more so if it turns out later that a huge role
in this case he played a racist.
This happened in 1971 with the Donald Marshall, an ordinary man from Canada,
who was accused of murdering his friend Sandy Forces.
Marshall was released only after 11 years of imprisonment, when there was a witness,
He claimed that Sandy has killed another person.
But Marshall had never been a model citizen; as it turned out, that night they
Sandy attacked by a stranger who, angry,
He stabbed her. But youthful folly - not a good reason to spend more
ten years in prison. Even when he was acquitted,
Judge blamed the miscarriage of justice in the Marshall himself, calling
his "author of his own misfortune."
The prosecution also failed to find evidence of his guilt, and the testimony, probably,
were obtained coercion - what the judge, apparently, is also blames Marshall.



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