# Charles Lee Bufford

Overturned

Charles Lee Bufford (born 1954) is an African-American man who was initially convicted of robbing and murdering William Roland Cooper, Jr., a probate judge in Wilcox County, Alabama, but was later retried and found not guilty. He had been sentenced to death, but his murder conviction was overturned when part of the death penalty law in Alabama was ruled unconstitutional. He was retried, but was acquitted despite his…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=63340058
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/charles-lee-bufford-w63340058

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