The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.
September 12, 2006
This story was written by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette staff writer Bill Moushey and Nathan Crabbe, a graduate student in journalism at Point Park University.
In the year after her testimony convicted Hosea Davis in the stabbing murder of a childhood friend, two-bit criminal Ameena Fullard had recanted her testimony at least three times.
So when Fullard called from the …
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Pittsburgh Man Now Must Max Out Sentence Due To Lie About Guilt
By Bill Moushey
Innocence Institute of Point Park University
PITTSBURGH -- Mr. Davis had known Tommy Paige since grammar school, both products of the tough streets of East Liberty. Along the way, both racked up convictions for drug and weapons possession charges.
After a wedding reception on Sept. 15, 2001, they drank at a …
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By Bill Moushey and Elizabeth Perry
Innocence Institute of Point Park University
Nancy Erwin admitted conspiring with her alcoholic, suicidal husband in the shooting of an Indiana County school secretary in 2002 over her dismissal as a math teacher because a lawyer convinced her it was the only way to avoid a life behind bars.
Now she says it was a lie.
“I was threatened, blackmailed, …
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