Ched Evans, a Welsh football player born in the UK, was convicted of raping a 19-year-old woman in 2012. Now, four years later, the CCRC or Criminal Cases Review Commission referred the conviction to the Court of Appeals. Evans has won his appeal against his conviction, and will now face…
In June of 2014, Loretta Hawks, who was 35 years old at the time, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 47-year-old Arthur Strozewski in August of 2012. News reports call the incident a “home invasion style murder.” Hawks allegedly participated with two others, all three…
Recently, a three-judge panel of the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld the 2014 arson conviction of 44-year-old Mark Misgen, owner of two pizza restaurants who was found guilty of burning down his family home in 2011. According to news reports, Misgen and his wife owned restaurants in Ellendale and Lonsdale,…
On Friday, March 11, it was announced that the murder and rape convictions of 31-year-old Shawn McClain had been upheld by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. McClain was convicted on murder and first-degree rape charges in August of last year. The victim, Dorothy Leatherwood, was allegedly raped and stabbed…
On Thursday March 10, 49-year-old Andre Hatchett was released from prison after spending nearly a quarter of a century behind bars for the beating death of a woman in 1991. Hatchett was serving 25 years to life for the murder of Neda Mae Carter, who was strangled, beaten in the…
In 2014, Chad Colton Bass was convicted in Lewis County in Washington State on charges of first-degree trafficking in stolen property, second-degree burglary, and third-degree theft in connection with the stripping of recyclable metals from a power pole in Centralia. At trial, Bass testified that he believed the former owner…
Recently, James Everett Dutschke, 45, filed an appeal in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals asking the court to overturn the dismissal of prior appeals of his conviction in the Northern District of Mississippi. Currently, Dutschke is incarcerated in a Colorado federal prison, serving a 25 year sentence. Dutschke, a…
In 2014, former Los Angeles city councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife, Flora, were convicted on charges of perjury and voting fraud. According to news reports, the couple lived in Sun Valley, but claimed they lived in Panorama City so that Alarcon could represent the district. The Alarcons appealed the…
In May of 2014, Kyle Wilson of Alpine Township was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his cousin Brandon Nelson. The two men shared an apartment; Wilson allegedly beat Nelson in a dispute over pizza. According to news reports, Wilson fled the apartment after beating his cousin,…
In 2001, Richard Masterson was found guilty of the February strangulation of 35-year-old Darrin Honeycutt in Houston, TX. Masterson is scheduled to be executed in less than three weeks, however his lawyers are now arguing that Masterson’s conviction was based on a questionable confession and botched autopsy, according to an…