Richard DiguglielmoRichard Diguglielmo: Police Coercion of Witnesses Leads to a Wrongful Conviction Richard Diguglielmo, a New York City police officer, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, based upon the testimony of eyewitnesses to the incident whose statements at the crime scene were consistent with self defense.
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Da'ron CoxThe Case: In November 1996 Brian Roberts pointed an automatic weapon at a police officer and was arrested. He was carrying 34 rocks of crack cocaine. He walked free after telling police the gun and drugs belonged to Roland Cephas. Mr. Cephas was busted and vowed retaliation. Ten days later, as Mr.
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Jason DerrickThe Case In the early morning hours of June 25, 1987, the life of Florida shop owner Rama Sharma came to an abrupt and tragic end. Four days later, the life of 20 year old Samuel Jason Derrick also took a tragic turn when he was charged with the murder despite the absence of any physical, forensic or DNA evidence connecting him to the crime.
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Ward & Fontenot They were literally dreamed onto death row. And in spite of the fact that the dream has been proven false - and proven false again and again in multiple ways - Karl Fontenot and Tommy Ward remain in prison. Tommy Ward, for hours, told police he didn't kill Denice Haraway. He told them, however, that he had a dream about her.
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The Case Karlyn Eklof was convicted of the murder of James Salmu. After eight to ten hours of daily interrogation for nine days, Eklof recited on videotape a police invented scenario in which she stabbed Salmu with a plastic knife. Eklof was prosecuted for Salmu's murder based on this "confession." Following Eklof's indictment, Salmu's body was found. At trial, testimony was presented indicating that Salmu had been stabbed.
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Frank PaulineThe Case While riding her bicycle, 23-year-old Dana Ireland was hit by a car. Then she was taken to a remote area 5 miles north of the collision site where she was raped and murdered. Two-and-a half years later an Oahu inmate, Frank Pauline, Jr., came forward with information.
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Juan RiveraJuan Rivera Juan Rivera was convicted of the 1992 murder and sexual assault of eleven-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan. No physical evidence ever linked Rivera to the crime. The prosecution's case was based on statements Rivera made to the police in the middle of the night after four days of intensive interrogation and at a time when medical personnel at the jail determined that he was in a psychotic state.
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Max SoffarThe case: Max Soffar is currently on death row due to a false confession that implicated him in an armed robbery at a Bowling center in Houston, TX during which 3 persons were killed and one severely injured. This occurred in 1980. He was questioned for three days and the statements that he made were either available through the media or that were told to him.
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Case: 17-year-old Daniel Taylor signed a 29-page confession at 5:52am, after hours of interrogation, taking responsibility for a double murder in the Uptown area around 9pm on December 16, 1992. The eyewitness to the murders insisted that Taylor was not one of the 4 men that she had seen leaving the murder scene, despite police pressure that she corroborate the confession.
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Billy Wayne Cope"Neighbors, friends, and fellow churchgoers from the Rock Hill, S.C. community (a suburb of Charlotte) were stunned when 38 year old Billy Wayne Cope was arrested and charged with beating, sexually assaulting, and murdering his 12 year old daughter Amanda in December 2001. .... He was charged when, after 4 days of interrogation, he confessed on videotape to the murder during a crime scene reenactment at his home.
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Tyrone Noling"In 1997, a year after Tyrone Noling was sentenced to death for gunning down an elderly couple in their home, Butch Wolcott and two other men who placed Noling at the crime scene signed affidavits saying their confessions were false. Ron Craig, the Portage County prosecutor's investigator, had put words in their mouths and pressured them, they claimed. Noling is innocent, they said.
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