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@amandaknox
Oct 2, 2021 • 21 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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It’s #WrongfulConvictionDay, and I want to introduce you to some exonerees! Please RETWEET this thread to help raise awareness about the problem of wrongful convictions and to celebrate those who’ve survived the fire.
There are far too many wrongful convictions with a number in their title. Here’s me and @mandunderbridge with Korey Wise of the Central Park 5. Korey was 16 when he was arrested and served nearly 14 years before he was exonerated.
Here’s Anna Vasquez of the San Antonio 4, a group of gay hispanic women falsely accused of child molestation during the satanic panic. Anna served 15 years before she was exonerated in 2016.
Here’s Damien Echols of the #WM3. Damien was 18 when he was arrested, also in connection with a satanic panic case. He served 18 years before he was released on an Alford plea. He & his codefendants, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley are still fighting for full exoneration
Obie Anthony is my exoneree twin! We were both released from prison on the exact same day: Oct 4th, 2011. I interviewed Obie for Labyrinths. He now helps exonerees after they’re released with his foundation @exoneratenation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exo…
It is surprisingly common for exonerees to devote themselves to helping others. During the pandemic, I interviewed dozens for @crimestorymedia. Khalil Rushdan spent 15 years inside for a wrongful murder conviction. He now works with the ACLU in Arizona. crimestory.com/2020/04/13/ama…
@JarrettAdamsLaw spent 10 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Once he was exonerated, he became a lawyer to help free more innocent people.
crimestory.com/2020/09/10/int…
Check out Jarrett's new book, Redeeming Justice!
jarrettadamslaw.com/redeeming-just…
Marty Tankleff @exoner8ed spent 17 years locked up for the murder of his own parents before he was exonerated. He too became a lawyer. Like me, he’s on the board of the @Douglassproject helping to humanize the incarcerated. crimestory.com/2020/05/10/ama…
Noura Jackson was 18 when she was wrongly convicted of stabbing her mother to death. She served 11 years before she was freed. crimestory.com/2020/06/03/ama…
Heidi Goodwin was wrongfully convicted due to the now discredited shaken baby syndrome. She served 10 years before she was exonerated. crimestory.com/2020/04/30/ama…
Jens Soering was a 18-year-old German foreign exchange student in Virginia when he was wrongfully convicted of a double homicide. His case has many echoes of my own, but it took 34 years for him to be released. I covered his story here: art19.com/shows/the-trut…
And there are so, so so many more. Felipe Rodriguez, 27 years.
Orlando Boquete, 13 years, and @bigantdipippo1, 20 years.
Josh Kezer, 15 years.
Juan Rivera, 19 years
Mario Casciaro, 3 years
Michael Hanline, 36 years
Irishman @MisePeterP was on death row for 15 years. After his exoneration, he met his wife Sunny Jacobs, 17 years on death row. Together they founded the @SunnyCenterFDN.
Ryan Ferguson, 10 years, and Darryl Burton, 23 years

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Nov 22
When I was found guilty of murder & sentenced to 26 years, I lost all hope that the truth of my innocence would ever matter. The prison put me on suicide watch. It was shortly thereafter that I received a curious letter from a psychology professor. /🧵
He told me that he was an expert in police interrogations, and he asked me to describe my interrogation to him with as much detail as I could remember. So I wrote him a letter back. It was difficult, because that night was the most terrifying night of my life.
My roommate Meredith had been brutally raped and murdered five days prior in her own bedroom while I was spending the night at my boyfriend’s house. The killer was on the loose. And I was trying my best to help the police.
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When my roommate, Meredith, was brutally raped and murdered, I should have been a footnote in her tragic story. Instead I was accused of a crime I had nothing to do with & catapulted into international infamy. After I was exonerated, I faced an impossible question: Now what? /🧵
I could never return to being an anonymous college student. I was the girl accused of murder. I was trapped in that story. I didn’t feel free. It’s taken me over a decade to make meaning out of my misfortune. I created my own freedom. That's the subject of my new book: FREE. Image
It’s been said that pain is inevitable, but that suffering is a choice. FREE is a guide to making that choice and making that choice matter — in my life and in yours.
amazon.com/Free-Search-Me…
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Sep 27
It’s been an ugly, bloody week for the US. Alabama just executed Alan Miller, which makes five men executed since Sept 20th. We need to abolish the death penalty. Here’s a dozen reasons why. /Thread
#1. We end up executing the innocent. The evidence against Marcellus Williams, executed by Missouri on Tuesday, hinged on unreliable witness testimony. None of the DNA or fingerprints from the crime scene matched him.
The DA and the victim’s family opposed his death sentence. But the Missouri AG, @AGAndrewBailey, and Governor Mike Parson, @GovParsonMO, executed him anyway.
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Sep 23
Marcellus Williams will be executed on Sept 24--despite plenty of evidence of his innocence, the prosecutor's confession of racial bias, and opposition from the victim's family--unless Governor Mike Parsons (@GovParsonMO) finds his conscience. /🧵 Image
Marcellus Williams has been on death row for 23 years proclaiming his innocence for the murder of reporter Felicia Gayle in 1998. The crime scene had tons of forensic evidence: fingerprints, footprints, hair, and even DNA on the murder weapon. None of it matches Williams.
The prosecution's entire case was based on incentivized witness testimony from two people with pending criminal charges who were offered leniency and reward money. Their testimony didn't provide any new information, and was inconsistent with their own prior statements.
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Aug 14
The Italian justice system has been gaslighting me for 17 years now. It began during my interrogation, and it continues in the courts, most recently in the legal motivation released on August 8th which explains why they found me guilty of slander back in June. /🧵
This gaslighting is upsetting and triggering—hearing a judge offer illogical arguments, present falsehoods as facts, and label me a liar—but it also inspires me to keep fighting, because the police should be held accountable for their abuses of power.
This latest trial was to determine whether a single document—a note, or memoriale, I wrote to recant the two statements I was coerced into signing during my interrogation—was slanderous against my friend and employer, Patrick Lumumba.
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Jun 6
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals in Florence upheld my conviction for slander after I gave some emotional testimony. I came to Italy to show I wasn't afraid, to look the judge and jury in the eyes, and to hear the verdict from their own lips.
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I'd like to share with you what I told the court in Italian before they sentenced me to 3 years in prison, punishing me yet again, for the harmful actions of others, punishing me for how the police victimized me. Here is my statement (originally delivered in Italian).
"A lot of people think that the worst night of my life was on December 4th, 2009, when I was convicted of a murder I didn’t commit and sentenced to 26 years in prison. But it wasn’t. The worst night of my life was on November 5, 2007.
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