Innocent Behind Bars

On the night of 17 November 1983, Dennis Maher is stopped by a policeman because he looks like a suspect who had raped a woman earlier that night.

Kwame Ajamu was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die before he turned eighteen, for a crime someone else committed.

Kristine Bunch is wrongfully convicted of murder and arson for the house fire that killed her three-year-old son.

John Button is the prime suspect in the killing of his girlfriend Rosemary Anderson and he is convicted of manslaughter; while in prison, serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke confesses to the crime.

In August 1984, two men rob a bar and assault the bartender; Derrick Jamison is identified by his alleged accomplice, convicted of murder, and sentenced to death.

Kian Khatibi is charged with a stabbing and sentenced to fourteen years behind bars.