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Exonerated 2018

Kevin Bailey

Year
1989
Where
Illinois
Source
Innocence Project
Evidence
1
What the record says

Kevin Bailey was 19 years old when Chicago police used physically coercive techniques to get him to falsely confess to a 1989 murder.

One-line description from the Innocence Project. Records change. The source is the authority.

Where to start

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What evidence was the conviction built on, and what has changed since trial?

  • Write down what the conviction rested on: eyewitness, confession, forensics, informant.
  • Find the court opinion and read what changed after trial.
  • Look for other cases with the same detective, lab or prosecutor.

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