There have been 1,982 exonerations of those wrongfully committed of crimes they didn’t commit (The National). There are two people in specific that have been affected immensely due to being wrongfully convicted. They were charged of various crimes and have had their lives changed due to their convictions. Danny Brown and Nathan Brown were both convicted of crimes, such as rape and murder, that they didn’t commit, proven through DNA testing, and have been affected immensely, by not getting compensation post jail-time, after serving their sentence.
To start, there were many accusations about the crimes committed in the Danny Brown case. First, a woman named Bobbie Russell was raped and killed, and the rapist was the same man as the killer. The DNA also matched a different man whose name was Sherman Preston. Sherman was already in jail for life for murder, and he was a suspected serial killer. It was also stated that he attempted to burn the house down (Keith 1). This shows the crime that Danny Brown was wrongfully accused of, due to him dating her in the past. Plus, the incident occurred on December, of 1982, when Bobbie Russell was brutally raped and
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The trial that took place wasn’t adequate due to the lack of information, proving wrongful conviction. According to Vanessa Potkin, there was a rush to judgement, and no one stopped and looked at the evidence on either side (Hunter). To analyze, this is one of many reasons that Nathan Brown was wrongfully convicted. The woman went to Nathan's house, as the police escorted him outside, where the woman was waiting to identify Nathan Brown as her assailant (The National). One can conclude from this evidence, that the woman was not sure about who her real assailant was. She jumped to the conclusion that it was Nathan due to his appearance. To conclude, there are many similarities in the wrongful conviction of Danny Brown and Nathan