Criminal,
Civil Rights
Jun. 15, 2016
For one man, justice delayed was certainly justice denied
William Richards was convicted of Pamela's murder and sentenced to prison for 25-years-to-life based on what has now been conceded to be, as a matter of law, "false evidence."
Twenty-Three years ago, based principally on "expert testimony," William Richards was convicted of the brutal and gruesome first-degree murder of his wife, Pamela, and was sentenced 25-years-to-life in prison. Among the many physical injuries suffered by Pamela at the hands of her killer - an injury to Pamela that ultimately led to Richards' "first degree" murder conviction - was a crescent shaped lesion on Pamela's hand at the time of her death, the so-called "bite-mark evidence."
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