A Missouri woman, Sandra “Sandy” Hemme, was freed after spending 43 years in prison for a murder she did not commit. A judge overturned her conviction, citing that police coerced a confession from the mentally ill woman and failed to properly investigate a corrupt officer who was responsible for the killing. Hemme, now 63, had been wrongly convicted and imprisoned for more than four decades. The case drew significant attention, with legal advocates like Paige Kaneb and nonprofits working towards her release.
Wow. Paige Kaneb, the radical leftist legal director of @NorCalInnocence, helped overturn the conviction of a black man who was found guilty of the brutal murder of a woman. The nonprofit raised significant funds based on their victory. California gave the man $8m dollars after… https://t.co/sVou32zbuh
𝐔𝐒 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 A 63-year-old Missouri woman, Sandra “Sandy” Hemme, who was imprisoned for more than 40 years for murder, has had her conviction overturned after spending… https://t.co/SHD4Rn9EYU
🇺🇸 Judge Tosses Woman's Murder Conviction After 40 years ▫MO woman convicted of murder and imprisoned is innocent ▫@katie_reports ▫https://t.co/JFtyp7wcRx 👈 #frontpagestoday #USA @KCStar 🇺🇸 https://t.co/A5kJBaskNi
Judge overturns murder conviction because cops coerced mentally ill woman into confessing and failed to properly investigate corrupt officer for the killing https://t.co/UBK6yr7od3
A jaw-dropping wrongful conviction. https://t.co/raZB1wQ3mH