Georgia - Conviction: 1973, Charges Dismissed: 1975Ĭreamer was sentenced to death for a murder allegedly committed with six other individuals who were sentenced to life. 1974) Ed Martin, Death Row: Legal rulings sent some from brink of death to freedom, The Charlotte News, March 15, 1984. See a list of all of the additional exonerations here. Was insufficient evidence to retry him without Mitchell’s testimony.Ĭarey is one of 12 additional exonerations discovered by DPIC in 20 during its research of all modern-era death sentences.

Albert Carey was retried and sentenced to death again,īut the prosecutor dropped charges against Anthony Carey because there Bothīrothers’ death sentences were reversed in 1974 by the North Carolina Were convicted but before the trial of two other codefendants. Mitchell recanted his testimony after the Careys

Testimony of the shooter, James Mitchell, who had entered into a pleaĭeal with prosecutors. Anthony Carey’s conviction relied primarily on the AnthonyĬarey was allegedly a passenger in a car parked multiple blocks awayįrom where the crime was committed and did not handle the gun involved Question however both were sentenced to death as accomplices. Neither of the brothers were accused of committing the murder in Anthony CareyĪnthony Carey was tried and sentenced to death along with hisīrother, Albert Carey, in 1973 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Supreme Court because the case lacked substantial evidence that Poole was the person who broke into the home. North Carolina - Conviction: 1973, Charges Dismissed: 1974Īfter being convicted of first degree burglary and given a mandatory death sentence, Poole had his conviction overturned by the N.C.

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