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Sep 30, 2021 · Sherwood Brown has been exonerated of the charges that sent him to death row in Mississippi in 1995 for a triple murder he did not commit. On August 24, 2021, DeSoto County Circuit Court Judge Jimmy McClure granted a prosecution motion to dismiss charges against Brown (pictured after his release), who was released later that day after having ...
Sherrod Campbell Brown (/ ˈ ʃ ɛr ə d /; born November 9, 1952) is an American politician who is the senior United States senator from Ohio, a seat which he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party , he was the U.S. representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007 and the 47th secretary of state of Ohio ...
Oct 4, 2021 · On March 28, 1995, the jury convicted Brown of one count of capital murder and two counts of non-capital murder. He was sentenced to death. In December 1996, the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed Brown’s conviction and sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case in October 1997.
Oct 26, 2017 · Sherwood Brown, 49, was convicted in the 1993 killings of a 13-year-old DeSoto County girl, her mother and grandmother. Exculpatory DNA testing results and false...
Sherwood Terrell Brown (born August 2, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Montreal Alliance of the Canadian Elite Basketball League. From 2009 to 2013, he played college basketball at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida .
Oct 1, 2021 · After 28 years incarcerated, 22 of which were spent on Mississippi’s death row, Sherwood Brown was released on August 24, 2021, with the help of a pro bono team led by intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson.
Oct 15, 2021 · Brown is the 100th African American in the U.S. since 1973 to be exonerated of a wrongful death conviction. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 186 men and women who were sentenced to death as a result of wrongful convictions have now been exonerated, seven of them in Mississippi.