Chadwick McGhee

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Charge:	Kidnapping (incld. Abduction)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2013
Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Louisiana
County or Region of Crime:	Avoyelles
City of Crime:	Simmesport
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Chadwick McGhee was wrongly convicted in 2014 of simple kidnapping in the disappearance of Jessica Guillot, who was last seen in Simmesport, Louisiana on September 7, 2013, and she has not been seen since. McGhee was indicted on November 14, 2013 of one count of second-degree kidnapping. During his trial testimony was presented that McGhee may have been present when Guillot was kidnapped, but no testimony was presented that he participated or had any prior knowledge. After his conviction by a jury McGhee filed a pre-sentence motion for a new trial that asserted,, among its grounds, that the jury's verdict was unsupported by the evidence. After the judge denied McGhee's motion, on November 12, 2014 he was sentenced to life in prison without parole as a habitual offender. McGhee appealed. On November 4, 2015 the Louisiana 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal reversed Chadwick McGhee's conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to prove he was involved in the kidnapping or to prove the essential element that he had the intent to commit kidnapping. The Court's ruling noted that McGhee committed no crime, because, "At most, the State proved that Defendant was present when the victim was kidnapped and failed to stop the kidnapping or report it to authorities, so-called misprision of a felony. However, while misprision may be unsavory, it ceased to be a crime in Louisiana after 1942.""
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Innocence Proved By:	"On November 4, 2015 the Louisiana 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal reversed Chadwick McGhee's conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to prove he was involved in the kidnapping or to prove the essential element that he had the intent to commit kidnapping."
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Age When Imprisoned:	25
Age When Released:	27
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"State of Louisiana vs. Chadwick McGhee, No. KA-15-0285 (LA 3rd Cir Ct of Appeal, 11-04-2015)"
Information Location 1:	http://www.la3circuit.org/Opinions/2015/11/110415/15-0285opi.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Conviction, sentence vacated in case of missing Simmesport woman, By Melissa Gregory, thetowntalk.com, November 17, 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2015/11/16/conviction-sentence-vacated-case-missing-simmesport-woman/75885242/
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Chadwick McGhee

Charge:

Kidnapping (incld. Abduction)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2013

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Louisiana

County or Region of Crime:

Avoyelles

City of Crime:

Simmesport

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On November 4, 2015 the Louisiana 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal reversed Chadwick McGhee's conviction on the basis the prosecution introduced insufficient evidence to prove he was involved in the kidnapping or to prove the essential element that he had the intent to commit kidnapping."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

25

Age When Released:

27

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"State of Louisiana vs. Chadwick McGhee, No. KA-15-0285 (LA 3rd Cir Ct of Appeal, 11-04-2015)"

Information Location 1:

http://www.la3circuit.org/Opinions/2015/11/110415/15-0285opi.pdf

Information Source 2:

"Conviction, sentence vacated in case of missing Simmesport woman, By Melissa Gregory, thetowntalk.com, November 17, 2015"

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http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2015/11/16/conviction-sentence-vacated-case-missing-simmesport-woman/75885242/

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