Wrongfully Incarcerated: 21 Cases You Should Know

Court throws out 2006 conviction of Bobby Johnson.

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Everton Wagstaffe and Reginald Connor - Everton Wagstaffe and Reginald Connor, both 47, were fully exonerated on kidnapping charges from a 1993 conviction, the New York Daily News reports. The courts dismissed the original indictment last year after it was discovered that the police withheld critical evidence that would have cleared them of the charges.   (Photo: Law Enforcement)
Anthony Ray Hinton - Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday, April 3, 2015, after having spent nearly 30 years on death row in Alabama's Jefferson County Jail. According to the Associated Press, prosecutors told a court that there was not enough evidence to link him to the 1985 murders of two Birmingham fast-food restaurant managers, which he was convicted of committing. "He was a poor person who was convicted because he didn't have the money to prove his innocence at trial," Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, said. "He was unable to get the legal help he needed for years. He was convicted based on bad science."(Photo: Alabama Dept. of Corrections/AP Photo)George Stinney - In December 2014, a judge threw out the murder conviction of George Stinney, a 14-year-old Black boy who was subsequently executed by electric chair more than 70 years ago in South Carolina. "I can think of no greater injustice,” Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen wrote. Stinney had been found guilty of killing two young white girls in a segregated mill town in 1944 despite a lack of any evidence linking him to the crime.(Photo: Kevin G. Hall/MCT/Getty Images)

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Bobby Johnson - Take a look at recent cases where justice was finally served. — Britt Middleton, Patrice Peck and Dominique Zonyéé After spending nine years in prison for a 2006 killing, Bobby Johnson was released from prison on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. Johnson's supporters say he was coerced into confessing that he killed 70-year-old Herbert Fields during a robbery. Prosecutors requested that the judge vacate Johnson's sentence. (Photo: Arnold Gold/New Haven Register via AP) 

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