I don't know about this particular case, but most wrongful convictions are of "known scumbags" who are guilty enough in any event.
I saw one of them on an interview about a year ago. He was a small time bookie. Spent thirty years in prison for a murder he didn't do.His wife did not divorce him in all that time.
During that period a lot of people were calling for the removal of J.E.H.s name from the F.B.I. building in Washington.
Though Ann Colter says there's no proof that Hoover was a trannie, he spent most of his adult life living with someone named Clyde. Which wouldn't make him a transvetite but it sure smells queer to me.
He seems to have done a lot of good things in his career and a few things that were horrendous.