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Rafay/Burns
| Wilfred Hathway | Kyle
Unger | James Driskell
| Ludrate Burton | Michael
Williams | Albert Johnson
| Shaka Sankofa:
Executed after conviction based on faulty eye-witness | U.S.
wrongful convictions: recently Exonerated Peter
Rose | Clifford St. Joseph
| John Stoll | Stephen
Cowans | Peter Reilly |
Still working on it: | Dennis
Dechaine | Dennis Perry
| Dwayne McKinney |
Marty Tankleff
Lawrence Adams
Man ends 30
wrongful years behind bars today
By J.M. Lawrence, Boston
Herald, May 20, 2004
A Boston man who spent 30 years in prison on a
wrongful murder conviction and was once ordered to die in the
electric chair is slated to walk out of court this morning into
the arms of his 81-year-old mother.
Suffolk
District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said late yesterday his office
will seek bail for Laurence Adams, but has not yet decided whether
to retry him for the 1972 beating death of MBTA worker James
C. Corry.
Adams'
mother, Mary, said she has never stopped praying her son would
come home. ``The truth had to come out one way or another,''
she said.
A
month ago, Chief Suffolk Superior Court Judge Robert A. Mulligan
overturned the 1974 murder conviction, citing a series of violations
of Adams' rights, including withholding of key evidence.
One
witness against Adams recanted before her death. His defense
also discovered a key witness was actually in prison when he
claimed he heard Adams confess in a Dorchester home to murder
during robbery of the coin boxes.
Adams,
now 51, earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in prison. Told
about his impending freedom, he said, ``I guess I'm going to
have to get myself a job fast,'' according to his attorney, John
J. Barter.
Barter
spent nine years trying to prove his innocence. ``He's had remarkable
patience,'' Barter said.
A
spokesman for the DA said the office is still reviewing the case,
but decided the ``interests of justice'' warrant bail. The office
is still searching for descendants of Corry and the MBTA has
no records, a T spokesman said.
Twenty
other men in Suffolk County have had their convictions overturned
in the past two decades.
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Index
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Index to Saskatoon Police stories
This is a pretty good scrapbook
for the 1998-2002 period.
 Hatchen
and Munson: These two drove Darrell Night
to the edge of Saskatoon on a freezing January night in 2000.
They were found guilty of unlawful confinement, did some time
and are acknowledged by the Saskatoon Police Service for each
having served for 17 years. The Police Association stood by them
and paid for their defence until they were convicted. Only then
were they fired.
- An incredible, long series on abusive cops in
the Seattle Post-Intelligence
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- Washington Post series on false confessions
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- Ontario: Dylan
Chochla
- Keigo Glen White
- John
Chalmers
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Canadians who have
been wrongfully convicted because of improper investigations
combined with zealous Crown
- Robert
Baltovich
- Jason
Dix
- Jim
Driskell
- Jody
Druken
- Randy
Druken
- Michel Dumont
- Walter
Gillespie and Robert Mailman
- Clayton Johnson
- Yvonne Johnson
- Herman
Kaglik
| Kulaveeringsam
"Kulam" Karthiresu
- Donald Marshall |Chris McCullough
- Michael
McTaggart
- Felix
Michaud
- David Milgaard
- Guy
Paul Morin
- Shannon
Murrin
- Jamie
Nelson
- Greg
Parsons
- Louise
Reynolds
- Thomas
Sophonow
- Gary
Staples
- Steven
Truscott
- Joe
Warren
- Leon
Walchuk
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- AIDWYC
- Innocence Project (Canada)
- Innocence Project (U.S.)
- Northwest Law Center on Wrongful Convictions
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