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Convictions that were overturned, and innocence claims courts are ruling on this week. Read what the evidence was and where it broke.
2 cases in ColoradoClear search
1936 · ColoradoOverturned
Joe Arridy
Joseph Arridy (; April 29, 1915 – January 6, 1939) was an American man who was falsely convicted and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado. He was manipulated by the police to extort a false confession from him due to his mental incapacities. Arridy was intellectually disabled and was 23 years old when he was executed on January 6, 1939, after…
2012 · ColoradoExonerated 2012Robert Dewey
On April 30, 2012, a Colorado district judge dismissed all charges against Robert Dewey and declared him innocent.