New Jersey
Essex County
Bill MacFarland was convicted of the 1911 arsenic murder of his wife. He was acquitted on retrial.
Mercer County
The Trenton Six were convicted of the 1948 murder of a Trenton shopkeeper. All six were exonerated by 1952.
Passaic County
Rubin Carter, a middleweight boxer who was convicted twice of a 1966 triple murder, conviction overturned in 1985 and indictments withdrawn in 1987.
Read more about this topic: Overturned Convictions In The United States
Famous quotes containing the word jersey:
“New Jersey gives us glue.”
—Howard Dietz (1896–1983)
“To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)