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a middleweight boxer who was convicted twice of a 1966 triple murder, conviction overturned in 1985 and indictments withdrawn in 1987.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:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)
“vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous
picture postcards of Atlantic City Hall,”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)