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Missouri woman Sandra Hemme who served 43 years in prison is free after her murder conviction was overturned
New York Post/AP ^ | 07/20/2024 | New York Post/AP

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.”

~snip~

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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The article goes on to say she was convicted of violent crimes while in prison.
1 posted on 07/20/2024 11:39:04 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

I don’t see how it says she was innocent. Just that she was held in prison too long?


2 posted on 07/20/2024 11:40:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


3 posted on 07/20/2024 11:41:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“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.


4 posted on 07/20/2024 11:43:01 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Now she can go back to living a full life and having children and getting an education and a career.


5 posted on 07/20/2024 11:43:30 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.””


6 posted on 07/20/2024 11:44:25 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.”


7 posted on 07/20/2024 11:45:06 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Attorney General Andrew Bailey is one of the good guys IMO.
I don't know the details of this case. Something is fishy
https://x.com/AGAndrewBailey
8 posted on 07/20/2024 11:47:34 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn
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To: Uncle Miltie

She was heavily drugged for the “confession”, it’s in article somewhere.


9 posted on 07/20/2024 11:49:35 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Indy Pendance
"I hope she sues for a billion dollars."

I'm more concerned that people believe a NYP article without looking into it themselves.
10 posted on 07/20/2024 11:53:04 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn
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To: Responsibility2nd

why did it take so long to get the conviction overturned?


11 posted on 07/20/2024 11:53:54 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: adorno

At least she’s alive.


12 posted on 07/20/2024 11:56:04 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Responsibility2nd
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.

Anyone would be hardpressed to spend 43 years in prison without committing violence, and I believe Hemme was mentally ill.

13 posted on 07/20/2024 11:56:37 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

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.


14 posted on 07/20/2024 11:57:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Every single cop and prosecutor involved should spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

L


15 posted on 07/20/2024 11:58:09 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

For which stabbing there was evidence suggesting that someone else did it.


16 posted on 07/20/2024 11:58:16 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Indy Pendance

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.


17 posted on 07/20/2024 12:01:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Jamestown1630
At least she’s alive.

A lot of comfort that is. 43 years of her life were taken away. Not much left to live for, other than existing. Hopefully she can make the most of what's left of her life.
18 posted on 07/20/2024 12:01:58 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“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.


19 posted on 07/20/2024 12:04:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: adorno

“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.


20 posted on 07/20/2024 12:04:24 PM PDT by TexasGator
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