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Guilty: The Levon Brooks Case
In the Levon Brooks case. Brooks was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder of a three year old girl. He was charged with Capital Murder, and sexual battery. Things that lead to his wrongful conviction were invalidated or improper Forensic Science, and Government Misconduct. Government misconduct is considered when lying or intentionally misleading jurors about their observations, failing to overturn exculpatory evidence, and providing incentives to secure unreliable evidence from informants. Randall Mills was falsely convicted of rape of a 12 year old girl in Tennessee. Mills was also charged with providing marijuana to a minor which he admitted to doing and also admitted to sexually touching her private parts. But he didn’t penile penetrate
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