Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the four-week trial, Demjanjuk acknowledged lying on his immigration papers, saying that he was in the Red Army and had been taken prisoner by the Nazis. The alibi seemed shaky to the court, and he was stripped of his citizenship...
...year before, would have opened the door to only three men in town. Police questioned all three and quickly decided on their man: Roger Keith Coleman, then 22, a coal miner married to Wanda's younger sister. Coleman had the misfortune of having a record and lacking a convincing alibi. He had served time from 1977 to 1979 for attempted rape, which helped persuade police that they had found Wanda's killer. A month later, they arrested him. A year later, there was a four-day trial. The evidence -- or lack of it -- raised doubts about his guilt. But after...
...though he had no alibi at all. At the trial, six witnesses vouched for Coleman's movements the night of the murder. He went to a grocery to buy some antacid pills; he reported for work at a coal mine, only to learn that the night shift had been laid off; he picked up his work clothes at the mine, then stopped to chat with a friend; he visited another friend in a trailer park; he went home to his wife. Important testimony came from Philip Vandyke, a friend of Coleman's, who could point to the precise time...
...behold, it turned out to be Reed's missing plane. Reed and his wife were indicted for mail fraud in Wichita. The case was dismissed in 1990 after the government refused to turn over North's diaries, notes and phone records, which Reed claimed would back up his alibi...
...their freedom to new evidence unearthed by Jim McCloskey, a New Jersey independent investigator who took the case after receiving a letter from Chance claiming that he had been wrongly convicted. His alibi: he was locked up in the county jail on the day of the murder. McCloskey tracked down three witnesses who had testified against Chance and Powell under what they said was pressure by the L.A.P.D. County prosecutors who joined the investigation then discovered that police had not revealed the fact that a jailhouse informant who had provided damning testimony had failed two polygraph tests...