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Kenneth Adams

Years Imprisoned:	18
Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	75 years
Year Convicted:	1979
Year Cleared:	1996
Location of Trial:	Illinois
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	One of the Ford Heights Four. Co-defendant Paula Gray falsely confessed. Cleared after a 14 year effort that included David Protess' journalism class at Northwestern University. Police were given the identity of the killers 5 days after the murders, but concealed that information from the FHF who split settlements totaling $36 million.
Conviction Caused By:	Convicted in part by the false confession of co-defendant Paula Gray. 'Eyewitness error, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and false expert forensic testimony.
Innocence Proved By:	DNA
Defendant Aided By:
Compensation Awarded:	$9 million
Was Perpetrator Found?
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Information Source 1:	Newspaper articles
Information Location 1:	http://www.truthinjustice.org/crusaders.htm
Information Source 2:	Newspaper article about settlement
Information Location 2:	""Ford Heights 4 Offered Huge Settlement," Robert Becker (staff writer), Chicago Tribune, March 5, 1999. At: http://www.truthinjustice.org/offer.htm"
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Information Location 3:	http://www.mayerbrown.com/retrospective/Pages/jimerson/jimersoncopy.html
Information Source 4:	Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern School of Law
Information Location 4:	http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/Adams.htm
Information Source 5:	Book about case
Information Location 5:	""A Promise of Justice: The eighteen-year fight to save four innocent men," David Protess and Rob Warden, Hyperion, 1998"
Ethnicity/Skin:	Black
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Kenneth Adams

Years Imprisoned:

18

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

75 years

Year Convicted:

1979

Year Cleared:

1996

Location of Trial:

Illinois

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Convicted in part by the false confession of co-defendant Paula Gray. 'Eyewitness error, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and false expert forensic testimony.

Innocence Proved By:

DNA

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

$9 million

Was Perpetrator Found?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Information Source 1:

Newspaper articles

Information Location 1:

http://www.truthinjustice.org/crusaders.htm

Information Source 2:

Newspaper article about settlement

Information Location 2:

""Ford Heights 4 Offered Huge Settlement," Robert Becker (staff writer), Chicago Tribune, March 5, 1999. At: http://www.truthinjustice.org/offer.htm"

Information Source 3:

Information Location 3:

http://www.mayerbrown.com/retrospective/Pages/jimerson/jimersoncopy.html

Information Source 4:

Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern School of Law

Information Location 4:

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/exonerations/Adams.htm

Information Source 5:

Book about case

Information Location 5:

""A Promise of Justice: The eighteen-year fight to save four innocent men," David Protess and Rob Warden, Hyperion, 1998"

Ethnicity/Skin:

Black

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