~6 0~p>According to lawyers, Hamme was the longest-serving woman wrongfully imprisoned in the United States.
American Sandra Hamme was sentenced to life imprisonment behind bars for 43 years for an uncommitted crime. A Missouri judge found the 64-year-old woman “the victim of a manifest injustice.”
This was reported by the Associated Press.
Sandra Hamma was convicted in 1980 in St. Joseph for the murder of a librarian. According to lawyers, Hamme was the longest-serving woman in the United States. in a “malleable mental state.” Investigators had no other evidence of involvement in the crime, except for the “confession” obtained from her.
At the same time, the police department ignored evidence implicating their officer, who died in 2015, in the murder.
The judge ruled that the suspect's lawyers provided evidence of “actual innocence” and overturned her conviction.
However, contrary to the court's decision, the Attorney General objected to Hamme's release because, while in custody, the woman committed two more crimes – she attacked a prison employee with a blade, and also received a sentence for “offering to commit violence.” The prosecutor argued that Hamme poses a safety risk to himself and others.
“It was too easy to convict an innocent person and much more difficult to get him out, to the point that court decisions were ignored,” said the convicted woman’s lawyer Sean O'Brien.
Recall that an Oklahoma court previously acquitted a man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, the longest known wrongful conviction in the United States.
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