Category: Terrible Wrongs – Other Cases

• September 20, 2021

  Important Wrongful Conviction TV episode & live event

  There are two chances to watch the new Oxygen “Behind Bars” episode: The “Behind Bars” TV episode mentioned in the poster above will premiere on TV on Saturday, September 28, 2021, at 8 PM in all markets except CST where it will air at 7 PM, on the Oxygen Channel. It contains separate, new video…
• November 10, 2017

  Suspect Convictions Episode 3 on Christina McNeil murder case.

  http://wglt.org/post/suspect-convictions-episode-3-does-modern-forensics-undercut-sex-assault-motive (Click here) Scott Reeder and Willis Kern get caught up in this episode discussing the emotionally charged allegation that Christina McNeil was sexually abused before death. The sensationalism of his allegation would certainly have swayed anyone towards convicting Barton McNeil. Yet there was no DNA, no penetration; just a little redness, swelling, and slight…
• November 5, 2017

  Suspect Convictions Podcast: Episode 2, Window Reveals Web Evidence

  This is the 2nd episode of Scott Reeder’s Suspect Convictions Podcast detailing the 1998 Bloomington, IL murder case of 3-yr old Christina McNeil. Her father was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison. He is fighting for his exoneration with the help of the IL Innocence Project. Suspect Convictions Episode 2 (Click…
• April 13, 2017

  Judge grants innocence certificate in 1957 Illinois killing

  “…The DeKalb County judge formally declared 77-year-old Jack McCullough innocent during a court hearing today. The certificate will allow McCullough to sue Illinois for damages for his wrongful conviction in Maria Ridulph’s killing. A prosecutor concluded last year that evidence backed McCullough’s alibi that he had been 40 miles away when Maria disappeared. A judge…
• February 24, 2017

  Private prisons & Trump

  Anybody who looks at the performance of private prisons can see that they end up costing us more, harm more people, fail to rehabilitate, and should not be used. “…Sally Yates, then the deputy attorney general, said in a memo that research had found private prisons “simply do not provide the same level of correctional…
• February 22, 2017

  And You Ask, How has This Happened???”

  An AP article was just posted about a defendant in Atlanta, GA who has been sitting in jail and waiting to go to trial for the past 10 years: “Kharon Davis has spent nearly 10 years in jail. He’s had four sets of attorneys, with two judges on the bench. His co-defendants’ cases have wrapped up.…
• February 20, 2017

  Article: Losing a Son in the New York State Prisons

    No one should have to die just because one is sent away to prison.  Yet, the story below is not new. Not everyone can withstand the mental and physical pressures of imprisonment especially when they are treated little better than warehoused cattle. We routinely see PETA and other animal rights group advertisements in print…
• February 16, 2017

  John Horton of Rockford free after more than 2 decades in prison

  ROCKFORD — “It’s breathtaking. Oh my goodness,” a Rockford man said after emerging from the Winnebago County Jail into the sunshine this afternoon after more than 23 years behind bars for a murder he and his supporters maintain he didn’t commit.John Horton Jr., 40, was convicted of the 1993 murder of Arthur Castaneda in Rockford.…
• December 7, 2016

  Scourge of Private Prisons

  https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privatization-criminal-justice/private-prisons
• October 15, 2016

  John Horton, One case our State’s Attorney, Joe Bruscato, Should Instantly Drop Like a Hot-Potato!

  If he is any bit a humanitarian, State’s Attorney, Joe Bruscato should not waste a moment in reviewing and dismissing the prosecution of John Horton, and ending the 23 years of suffering which this man has endured.   http://www.rrstar.com/news/20161012/illinois-appellate-court-says-rockford-man-convicted-of-murder-entitled-to-new-trial