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Graves: 5 years in prison. James Craig Anderson was a 47-year-old American man who was murdered in a hate crime in Jackson, Mississippi on June 26, 2011, by 18-year-old Deryl Dedmon of Brandon. At the time of his death, Anderson was working on the assembly line at the Nissan plant in Canton, and raising an adopted son with his partner.
On February 10, 2015, Reeves sentenced three young white men for their roles in the death of a 48-year-old black man named James Craig Anderson. [10] They were part of a group that beat Anderson and then killed him by running over his body with a truck, yelling "white power" as they drove off. [11]
This is a list of law enforcement officers convicted for an on-duty killing in the United States. The listing documents the date the incident resulting in conviction occurred, the date the officer (s) was convicted, the name of the officer (s), and a brief description of the original occurrence making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or ...
This list of wrongful convictions in the United States includes people who have been legally exonerated, including people whose convictions have been overturned or vacated, and who have not been retried because the charges were dismissed by the states. It also includes some historic cases of people who have not been formally exonerated (by a formal process such as has existed in the United ...
Craig Michael Titus (born January 14, 1965, [1] in Wyandotte, Michigan) is an American convicted murderer. [2] He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and arson in the death on December 14, 2005 of 28-year-old Melissa James, a personal assistant to him and his wife, Kelly Ryan, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was sentenced in 2008 to 21 to 55 years in prison.
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Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91 (1945), was a 1945 Supreme Court case that made it difficult for the federal government to bring prosecutions when local government officials killed African-Americans in an extra-judicial manner.
United States v. Shipp, 203 U.S. 563 (1906) (along with decisions at 214 U.S. 386 (1909), and 215 U.S. 580 (1909)), were rulings of the Supreme Court of the United States with regard to Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp and five others of Chattanooga, Tennessee, having "in effect aided and abetted " the lynching of Ed Johnson. [1] They were held in contempt of court and sentenced to imprisonment. It ...