After serving 24 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit, Andre Hatchett was finally released. This is important to know because so many people have been accused and or convicted of crimes that they did not have any part of. Andre Hatchett was wrongfully convicted of murder because of witnesses and problems with the trial but, was later proven innocent.
Many different reasons led to the conviction of Andre Hatchett. First, Hatchett was convicted from the testimony of a witness. Gerard Williams testified and identified Hatchett as the man he saw swinging at the victim. From this single testimony, Hatchett was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to 25-years-to-life. The second reason the trial led to the conviction was because of something Mr. Hatchett’s lawyers did not do. Neither of Hatchett’s defense lawyers presented medical records showing that at the time of the crime, Hatchett was on After serving 24 years in prison for a crime that he did not
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First, Hatchett was convicted from the testimony of a witness. Gerard Williams testified and identified Hatchett as the man he saw swinging at the victim. From this single testimony, Hatchett was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to 25-years-to-life. The second reason the trial led to the conviction was because of something Mr. Hatchett’s lawyers did not do. Neither of Hatchett’s crutches and wearing a leg cast and was physically unable to commit the crime. This makes me wonder how the trial could have gone differently, and maybe Hatchett could have been proven innocent. In this trial only two witnesses were found close to the scene of the crime, Gerard Williams and a woman nicknamed “Popeye”. They told officers that when they were in the park they had heard a woman scream and later Gerard stated he saw a man swinging on the victim. From this information given by the two witnesses Hatchett was found