The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
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Don Ray Adams served almost 20 years before acquittal in 1990 double murder
By Darlene White Natale
The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
In 2005, when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a late-stage appeal on his 1990 double-murder
conviction, Don Ray Adams resigned himself to life in prison for something he always
maintained he didn’t do, and told his family to forget about …
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Don Ray Adams got a life sentence in a 1990 double homicide despite a list of six eyewitnesses who didn't initially place him at the scene.
Police instead relied on a convicted felon and drug abuser with emotional problems who emerged seven months after the murder to implicate Adams -- even though he didn't match the initial description of the killer.
After two men …
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