Dixmoor 5
The Dixmoor 5 are five African-American men who, as teenagers in Chicago, Illinois, were falsely convicted of the 1991 rape and murder of 14-year-old Cateresa Matthews. After recanted testimony and DNA evidence, their convictions were vacated November 3, 2011 and those remaining incarcerated were released.[1]
In 2014, they reached a wrongful conviction settlement with the state of Illinois for $40 million US dollars, the largest wrongful conviction settlement in state history.[2]
See also
- List of wrongful convictions for murder in the United States
- Innocence Project
- Innocent prisoner's dilemma
- Miscarriage of justice
- Overturned convictions in the United States
Notes
- ^ Steve Mills and Andrew Grimm, Convictions vacated in '91 rape, slaying of Dixmoor girl, Chicago Tribune, 2011-11-03. Accessed online 2012-11-18.
- ^ Mills, Steve (June 25, 2014). "$40M for five wrongly convicted of Dixmoor rape, murder". Chicago Tribune.
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