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Beginning at age 18, Jackson spent 39 years in an Ohio prison for a crime he didn’t commit—the longest prison term for an exonerated defendant in American history, and a staggering example of...
According to the National Registry of Exonerations, Jackson was imprisoned for 39 years on this wrongful conviction. [3][4] This was believed to be the longest record for someone who has been exonerated. Wiley Bridgeman served nearly as long.
Nov 19, 2014 · Ricky Jackson will walk free on Friday, 39 years after his imprisonment for murder. The ruling makes him the longest-held US prisoner to be exonerated, a lawyer for the Ohio Innocence Project said.
Nov 21, 2014 · By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio man who spent 39 years in prison for a murder he did not commit was freed on Friday after becoming the longest-held U.S. prisoner to be...
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An Ohio man exonerated last fall after nearly four decades in prison for a murder he didn't commit is suing Cleveland police for their role in putting him away.
Ricky Jackson, in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, names the city and at least eight former officers or their estates for his arrest and incarceration following a 1975 Cleveland-area slaying.
"It was the misconduct by Cleveland police detectives and those working in concert with them that led to Mr. Jackson's wrongful conviction," according to the suit in U.S.District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Jackson was 18 when he was first locked up, and is now 58. With 39 years in prison, he's believed to have served the longest time behind bars for someone wrongly incarcerated in the United States, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. He had been sentenced to life after Ohio declared the death penalty unconstitutional in 1978 before reinstating it three years later.
Jackson and two other co-defendants who were also wrongly convicted in the case were freed after a key witness, Edward Vernon, recanted his testimony two years ago claiming the trio shot and robbed money order salesman Harold Franks. Vernon, who was 12 at the time of the shooting, said he had been coerced by detectives.
"His statement implicating Mr. Jackson was a complete fabrication created by the detectives," the lawsuit alleges.
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Nov 21, 2014 · Ricky Jackson walked out of jail in Cleveland, Ohio today after spending 39 years in prison, making him the longest-held prisoner to be exonerated in the United States.
Ricky Jackson, who is now 59, is expected to be released on Friday after spending 39 years in prison for the killing in May 1975 of a money-order collector in Cleveland. He and two other men,...
