Posted on 07/20/2024 11:39:04 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the last month by Missouri’s attorney general to keep her behind bars.
Sandra Hemme, 64, left a prison in Chillicothe, hours after a judge threatened to hold the attorney general’s office in contempt if they continued to fight against her release.
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Hemme had been the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman known in the US, according to her legal team at the Innocence Project.
The judge originally ruled on June 14 that Hemme’s attorneys had established “clear and convincing evidence” of “actual innocence” and he overturned her conviction. But Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey fought her release in the courts.
“It was too easy to convict an innocent person and way harder than it should have been to get her out, even to the point of court orders being ignored,” her attorney Sean O’Brien said.
“It shouldn’t be this hard to free an innocent person.”
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Hemme was serving a life sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 1980 stabbing death of library worker Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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I don’t see how it says she was innocent. Just that she was held in prison too long?
Did she do the original murder?
This many paragraphs into the article, the author ought to have brought the relevant facts to bear already.
Lousy journalism.
“She’s going to need help,” he said, noting she won’t be eligible for social security because she has been incarcerated for so long.
I hope she sues for a billion dollars.
Now she can go back to living a full life and having children and getting an education and a career.
Here we go, at the bottom of the article:
“Her attorneys described her ultimate confession as “often monosyllabic responses to leading questions.” Other than the confession, no evidence linked her to the crime, her trial prosecutor said.
The St. Joseph Police Department, meanwhile, ignored evidence pointing to Michael Holman — a fellow officer, who died in 2015 — and the prosecution wasn’t told about FBI results that could have cleared Hemme, so it was never disclosed before her trials, the judge found.
Evidence presented to Horsman showed that Holman’s pickup truck was seen outside Jeschke’s apartment, that he tried to use her credit card, and that her earrings were found in his home.
Horsman, in his report, called Hemme “the victim of a manifest injustice.””
Also, preceding the above:
“Horsman, after an extensive review, concluded in June that Hemme was heavily sedated and in a “malleable mental state” when investigators repeatedly questioned her in a psychiatric hospital after the killing.”
She was heavily drugged for the “confession”, it’s in article somewhere.
why did it take so long to get the conviction overturned?
At least she’s alive.
Evidence presented to Horsman showed that Holman’s pickup truck was seen outside Jeschke’s apartment, that he tried to use her credit card, and that her earrings were found in his home.
Anyone would be hardpressed to spend 43 years in prison without committing violence, and I believe Hemme was mentally ill.
Very lousy. This was a long article, yet this one sentence is the only thing mentioned that explains why she was in prison....
Hemme was serving a life sentence at the Chillicothe Correctional Center for the 1980 stabbing death of library worker Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Every single cop and prosecutor involved should spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
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For which stabbing there was evidence suggesting that someone else did it.
I hope she sues for a billion dollars.
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That’s $166.00 for each and every person that lives in Missouri. There’s thousands who cant afford that. Will you sponsor just 100 poor Missouri residents?
Send a check for $16,000.
“Horsman, after an extensive review, concluded in June that Hemme was heavily sedated and in a “malleable mental state” ....
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Sounds like Biden when he speaks.
“Now she can go back to living a full life and having children and getting an education and a career.”
Go back to living a full life?
Mentally, she was a basket case. Six years in an institution and multiple suicide attempts.
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