William Thomas Gregory

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Charge:	Rape and Burglary
Sentence:	70 years
Years Imprisoned:	7
Year Crime:	1992
Year Convicted:	1993
Year Cleared:	2000
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Kentucky
County or Region of Crime:	Jefferson
City of Crime:	Louisville
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"William Thomas Gregory was wrongly convicted of raping two women, neither of who identified him as their attacker when they were shown his photograph, but who both later insisted he was the rapist. A Kentucky State Police forensic "expert" testified that Gregory's hair was "similar" to the assailant's hair found in a stocking cap. After seven years in prison, William Gregory was exonerated by DNA tests. In April 2006, the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Gregory's civil rights lawsuit against Louisville, Kentucky police officers and investigators for their actions contributing to his conviction can go to trial. Gregory filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that was settled with the Kentucky State Police agreeing in November 2006 to pay $700,000 to settle his claims against a state forensic examiner who testified against him, and the City of Louisville agreeing in February 2007 to pay $3.9 million, for a total of $4.6 million compensation. Gregory settled another lawsuit for about $1.4 million. Gregory was represented in his civil suit by Louisville attorney Larry Simon and the New York City law firm of Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP. Two of the partners in NS&B are Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, co-founders of the non-profit Innocence Project in New York."
Conviction Caused By:	"Eyewitness error by two rape victims. Erroneous analysis of hair evidence by a police lab technician, and police misconduct of subtley directly the rape victims to identify Mr. Gregory after they had initially failed to identify him as the attacker."
Innocence Proved By:	DNA testing excluded him as the culprit
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project of New York
Compensation Awarded:	"$4.6 million ($3.9 million (City of Louisville, Feb. 2007) and $700,000 (Kentucky State Police, Nov. 2006 - federal civil rights lawsuit)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	43
Age When Released:	50
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	Kentucky Innocence Project
Information Location 1:	http://dpa.state.ky.us/library/advocate/jan03/wrongful.html
Information Source 2:	"Appeals court lets dna exoneration lawsuit go forward, Brett Barrouquere, Lexington Herald-Leader, April 12, 2006"
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Information Source 3:	"Two wrongly convicted men share similar experience, By Connie Leonard, WAVE 3 News, 2009"
Information Location 3:	http://www.wave3.com/story/11316471/two-wrongly-convicted-men-share-similar-experience
Information Source 4:	"Man Wrongly Convicted of Rape Settles for $3.9 Million, By Staff, The Poppe Law Firm, Feb. 8, 2007"
Information Location 4:	http://www.poppelawfirm.com/blog_article.html?id=160
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William Thomas Gregory

Charge:

Rape and Burglary

Sentence:

70 years

Years Imprisoned:

7

Year Crime:

1992

Year Convicted:

1993

Year Cleared:

2000

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Kentucky

County or Region of Crime:

Jefferson

City of Crime:

Louisville

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Eyewitness error by two rape victims. Erroneous analysis of hair evidence by a police lab technician, and police misconduct of subtley directly the rape victims to identify Mr. Gregory after they had initially failed to identify him as the attacker."

Innocence Proved By:

DNA testing excluded him as the culprit

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project of New York

Compensation Awarded:

"$4.6 million ($3.9 million (City of Louisville, Feb. 2007) and $700,000 (Kentucky State Police, Nov. 2006 - federal civil rights lawsuit)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

43

Age When Released:

50

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

Kentucky Innocence Project

Information Location 1:

http://dpa.state.ky.us/library/advocate/jan03/wrongful.html

Information Source 2:

"Appeals court lets dna exoneration lawsuit go forward, Brett Barrouquere, Lexington Herald-Leader, April 12, 2006"

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Information Source 3:

"Two wrongly convicted men share similar experience, By Connie Leonard, WAVE 3 News, 2009"

Information Location 3:

http://www.wave3.com/story/11316471/two-wrongly-convicted-men-share-similar-experience

Information Source 4:

"Man Wrongly Convicted of Rape Settles for $3.9 Million, By Staff, The Poppe Law Firm, Feb. 8, 2007"

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http://www.poppelawfirm.com/blog_article.html?id=160

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