Category: Wrongfully Accused

Wrongful Convictions in Georgia Georgia has had its share of wrongful convictions, and the state has taken steps to try to prevent them from happening in the future. In 2005, the Georgia Supreme Court set up a Commission on Equal Justice in response to concerns about wrongful convictions. The commission is tasked with looking into…

Georgia Man Was Falsely Imprisoned for 17 Months Due to Mistaken Fingerprints Fingerprints are considered to be insurmountable evidence. However, in the case of a convicted Georgia man, a routine check of the supposed offender’s identification revealed the huge mismatch: his fingerprints were inaccurately identified as those of a criminal, and he had, consequently, been…

An Augusta man, who shot and injured a suspected burglar, found out this week that the district attorney could file charges against him. Thurman is shocked that he could possibly face criminal charges for acting in self-defense when he protected himself against an intruder. Thurman told reporters that he didn’t shoot Jeffrey Whitt because he saw him…

It was a long wait for Robert Clark, who spent 24 years in Georgia prisons for a crime that he did not commit. Clark finally got his compensation last week, according to an article published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a resolution last week to pay Clark $1.2 million after he…