# Wilmington Ten

Overturned · 1971

The Wilmington Ten were nine young men and a woman who were wrongfully convicted in 1971 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, of arson and conspiracy. Most were sentenced to 29 years in prison, and all ten served nearly a decade in jail before an appeal won their release. The case became an international cause célèbre, in which many critics of the city and state characterized the activists as political…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=9874951
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/wilmington-ten-w9874951

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