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Georgia Man Was Falsely Imprisoned for 17 Months Due to Mistaken Fingerprints

By Conaway and Strickler

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 wrongly incarcerated for 17 months for a robbery that he didn?t commit. The question then is simple: Is $145,000 enough to compensate for a wrongful conviction? Many would believe it is, especially for a period of a mere 17 months. Perhaps it has brought the formerly-guilty-incarcerated-but-now-innocent-and-free man a little sense of justice. The Georgia resident served 17 long months in Rikers Island, a sentence that still haunts him like a bad dream...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).