Mass-Since 1997 NINE Black Men have been released due to Wrongful Convictions
Tuesday, June 8, 2004 at 01:49AM
TheSpook
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Since 1997 NINE Black Men have been released after findings of Wrongful Convictions:
Sentenced to death in slaying, man now `presumed innocent'
A Suffolk judge declared Laurence Adams
``presumed innocent'' yesterday after prosecutors dropped murder
charges 30 years after he was ordered to die in the electric chair over
the beating death of an MBTA worker. ``A bell has been unrung,''
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Muse said while
acknowledging the familiar scene at the courthouse where nine black men
since 1997 have been released after findings of wrongful convictions. [more]
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