Category: Wrongful conviction
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Evidence of police dishonesty leads to overturned convictions nationwide
By Nancy West VTDigger.org Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just before Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance policy. Or maybe – as Milke has insisted all along – she was just the innocent victim of a corrupt cop with a proven pattern of…
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Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on Trial
By Raymond Bonner Special to ProPublica For 30 years, Ken Anderson was the face of law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas. Earlier this month, he walked into the courthouse again, this time as a defendant for helping to end an innocent man to prison.