The biggest judicial error of all time
Sandra Hemme, an American woman, was recently released from prison for a murder she did not commit, but for which she was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980. She had allegedly killed a library employee in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Yet the two women didn't know each other.
The problem however, is that Sandra confessed to the crime in a psychiatric hospital, where excessive consumption of powerful sedatives is considered the main reason for this unexpected confession.
It seems the US legal system then rushed to the conclusion that she was guilty.
After 43 years, Sandra Hemme was released from prison in what is considered to be the longest wrongful conviction in US history, and therefore the biggest mistake of the American judicial system.
(MaSi/Source: Law&Crime/Photo: Unsplash)
