# Johnny Lee Wilson case

Overturned · 1987

The Johnny Lee Wilson case refers to the murder of 79-year-old Pauline Martz of Aurora, Missouri in 1986 that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of a 20-year-old man named Johnny Lee Wilson. He had confessed to the murder days after it occurred. As a result of a guilty plea, Wilson did not receive a trial by a jury, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 1987.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=56040028
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/johnny-lee-wilson-case-w56040028

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## Sources

1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=56040028


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