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Grisham's book describes the aggressive and misguided mission of the police and Pontotoc County District Attorney Bill Peterson to solve the mystery of Carter's murder. Police and prosecutors use forced "dream" confessions, unreliable witnesses, and flimsy evidence to convict Williamson and Fritz to the crime.
The Staircase is an American biographical crime drama television miniseries created by Antonio Campos, based on the 2004 true crime docuseries of the same name created by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. The series stars Colin Firth as Michael Peterson, a writer convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson ( Toni Collette ), who was found dead at ...
Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony. [1] In 2017, Peterson submitted an Alford plea ...
Ashli Turner hugs Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, who announced she will not seek re-election when her term ends in 2024.. Peters Baker has been prosecutor since 2011. Peters Baker ...
Michael Byron Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is an American former attorney and convicted criminal. He served as the Durham County District Attorney until he was removed, disbarred, and very briefly jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case, primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted ...
Judge Anne-Christine Massullo speaks during a hearing at the San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. Scott Peterson is in court for a hearing to determine ...
Ron Williamson. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to ...
David Walter Banks. A California man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta on charges of threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the ...