Location |
Defendant(s) |
Date of Alleged Crime |
Morgan County,
AL |
Daniel Wade Moore |
Mar 12, 1999 (Decatur) |
Daniel Wade
Moore was
convicted in 2002 and sentenced to death for the murder of Karen Tipton. In
2003, Moore's conviction was overturned due to the prosecution's withholding
of exculpatory evidence. In 2005, the prosecution's conduct was found to be
so egregious that a retrial was barred under Double Jeopardy laws. On
hearing of this ruling, a juror declared, “I'm happy with it. I felt that
Daniel didn't do it.” Moore was released, but was reimprisoned four days
later by the court hearing the state's appeal. In 2006, the appeals court
reversed the trial court's ruling and gave Moore the right to a retrial, but
not a dismissal of charges. In Feb. 2008, Moore was retried, but a
mistrial was declared after jurors were unable to agree on a verdict after 6
days of deliberation. In May 2009, Moore was acquitted at his third
trial. (JD32
p18) (WHNT
19) [12/06] |
Bay County, FL |
Ronald Joseph, Jr. |
May 10, 2006 (Panama City) |
“Ronald Joseph, Jr. was wrongly convicted in 2007 for leaving the scene of an
accident, when after hitting a man he drove to a store to call 911 for help. During his trial the prosecution claimed that neither the tape of his
emergency call for help nor a witness at the store could be located. The
judge declared a mistrial. Ronald Joseph was retried, again without the
prosecution producing the evidence he had called for help, and he was
convicted. Joseph was sentenced to five years in prison. On July 30, 2008
Florida's First District Court of Appeals overturned Joseph's conviction and
ordered his release because the judge shouldn't have declared a mistrial in
the first trial, and because jeopardy had attached, it had violated his
right against double jeopardy for him to have been tried twice.” –
FJDB (News
Herald) |
Cumberland County, NC |
Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald |
Feb 17, 1970 |
(Federal Case) Army Captain
Jeffrey MacDonald was convicted of the murder of his wife
Collette, 26, and the murders of two daughters, Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2.
According to MacDonald, he and his family were attacked by intruders to
their home at 544 Castle Drive in Fort Bragg, a U.S. military base. MacDonald survived with wounds including a collapsed lung.
MacDonald was acquitted of the murders at a Ft. Bragg Army hearing and probably
would not have been tried again had he not angered the prosecution by
criticizing them during interviews on national TV. MacDonald's Army
acquittal meant that he could not be court-martialed, but he could still be
tried in federal court and he was. Before his federal trial MacDonald
invited author Joe McGinniss on his defense team to write a book and
hopefully help to establish his factual innocence. At that trial MacDonald
was unfortunately convicted.
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|
Summit County, OH |
Denny Ross |
May 20, 1999 |
Denny Frederick Ross was tried in Akron for the murder of 18-year-old Hannah Hill.
Hill had disappeared one night and her body was found stuffed in the trunk of her Geo Prizm
six days later. She had been beaten and strangled. Her
body was found naked from the waist down and her bra and shirt were pushed
up over her breasts. This display of her body suggested she was raped,
but an autopsy found no evidence of rape and also determined that she was
wearing her corduroy pants when she died. Hill had been romantic with Ross on the night of
her disappearance and one theory of her murder is that her jealous and
abusive boyfriend, Brad O'Born, had killed her for her infidelity.
O'Born had scratch marks on his neck when police questioned him
in the days following her disappearance.
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Philadelphia County, PA |
Walter Ogrod |
July 12, 1988 |
Walter Ogrod
was sentenced to death for the 1988 murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean
Horn. The murder occurred near her house at 7245 Rutland Street, close to
Cottman Avenue. Four witnesses had seen a man carrying a TV box in which
Horn's body was found. One of the witnesses, David Schectman, told police
he'd interacted with the box carrying man for 11 minutes on St. Vincent St.
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Harris County,
TX |
Robert Angleton |
Apr 16, 1997 |
Robert Angleton, also known as
Bob, was a bookie who took bets on sporting events. He was charged with
murdering his 46-year-old wife, Doris. Following the murder, Bob told
police that he suspected his brother Roger was the killer. Despite Roger's
checkered past, Bob had employed him in 1989. He fired him less than a year
later. After being fired, Roger felt Bob owed him $200,000 and even tried
to rob him of it at gunpoint. Roger then threatened to put Bob out of
business, by reporting him to the IRS. Bob ignored him, but Roger started
making phone calls to customers, posing as an IRS agent.
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Note for
next entry: Canadian
law allows the prosecution to appeal acquittals.
It only bans double
jeopardy after such appeals are complete.
Ontario, Canada |
Guy Paul Morin |
Oct 3, 1984 |
Guy Paul
Morin was
tried twice for the killing of nine-year-old Christine Jessop, his next door
neighbor. Jessup was abducted from her Queensville home on Oct. 3,
1984. Her lifeless body was found on Dec. 31, 1984 some 33 miles away
in the Durham Region. The body's decomposition was consistent with her
death occurring near the time of her abduction. Morin was
arrested in Feb. 1985, and acquitted at trial in Feb. 1986. The
prosecution, however, appealed the acquittal and had it overturned. Morin was again arrested 5
months after his acquittal and convicted at retrial in 1992. At both
trials the crown employed jailhouse informants to fill in gaps in its
case. DNA tests
exonerated Morin in 1995, and he was later awarded $1.4 million in
compensation. A book was written about the case entitled Redrum The
Innocent by Kirk Makin. (Champion) (IB)
[12/05] |
Japan |
Govinda Mainali |
Mar 9, 1997 |
Govinda Mainali, a Nepalese
migrant worker, was convicted of the rape and murder of a Tokyo woman.
The victim, though a prostitute by night, was a respected
economist for the Tokyo Electric Power Co. Although Mainali initially
denied knowing the victim, he later admitted to investigators that he twice
paid her to have sex with him. Mainali said he had not seen the victim
for days prior to her murder. There were no witnesses to dispute his
statement. A condom found at the scene of the crime contained Mainali's semen. After reviewing an expert's analysis of the semen,
the trial judge ruled that the semen found was too old to have been produced
on the day of the murder. The judge then stated there was no evidence of Mainali's guilt and acquitted him.
Following
Mainali's acquittal, he was held in detention for over eight
months while prosecutors sought a court more receptive to their case. In
Dec. 2000, the Tokyo High Court reversed Mainali's acquittal and sentenced
him to life in prison. The presiding judge, Toshio Takaki, was the same
judge who had granted the prosecution's request to keep Mainali imprisoned
pending appeal. After a few brief hearings that introduced no new
evidence, he wrote that the record from the Mainali's first trial left no
doubt of his guilt. (Japan
Times) (Legal
Affairs) [8/09] |
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