Looking Back: Two Framed Defendants Receive $12 Million
, 2022-07-02 22:27:57,
by Jeffrey Deskovic
“Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are applicable here in CA as well as across the country and not simply applicable to NY.
On Nov. 19, 2009, this column produced an article in The Guardian entitled Supreme Court Must Determine Citizens Have Right Not To Be Framed which dealt with the case Pottawattamie County v. McGhee.
The case involved two African American men, Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee, who had each served 25 years in prison for murders for which they were framed by prosecutors Joseph Hrvol and David Richter, along with the Council Bluffs, Iowa, Police Department.
The prosecutors and police got 16-year-old Kevin Hughes, who had a criminal record, to falsely implicate Harrington and McGhee. Initially, Hughes identified two different men, one of whom was in jail at the time.
Then he got other details incorrect: he got the crime…
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