Barry served 19 years on a 20-year murder charge before having his conviction reversed.
The decision ordered his conviction reversed, but Ruby died before he could be retried.
Charges against the doctors were discharged, the janitor was convicted but had his conviction reversed on appeal and the final man was convicted but later pardoned.
Mayer researched the law in jail and after fifteen months managed to get his conviction reversed on a technicality.
It stated that where a person had been executed for high treason, their conviction was not to be posthumously overturned or "reversed" at the suit of their heirs.
It's true that when someone tries to get his conviction reversed, the burden is on the accused, not the prosecutor, to prove his case.
Frank Quattrone got convicted based on e-mail, although he just got his conviction reversed.
This boy's family tried for a century and a half to get his conviction reversed.
When you're trying to get your client's conviction reversed, six homicides can be a tad much to explain away.
(The arrests were later appealed to the Supreme Court and the convictions reversed in Griffin v. Maryland.)