Tag: Innocence
Woman Freed After 43 Years in Prison as Murder Conviction Overturned
Sandra Hemme, a Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison after implicating herself in a 1980 murder while she was a psychiatric patient, has been released from prison. This decision came after her...
Man Exonerated After 45 Years in Virginia Prison
A man who was imprisoned for 45 years in Virginia for the sexual assault and murder of a 3-year-old boy has been declared innocent by the state Court of Appeals. Marvin Leon Grimm Jr.,...
Jerry Sandusky’s Ongoing Assertion of Innocence Following Child Sex Abuse Conviction
Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced former Penn State football coach, recently spoke out from the Laurel Highlands State Correctional Institution in Somerset, Pennsylvania, where he is serving a 30 to 60-year sentence for sexually abusing...