An appellate court in Missouri recently upheld a lower court's decision to overturn the murder conviction of a woman who had spent 43 years in prison for a crime her attorneys argue was committed by a discredited police officer. Sandra Hemme, the woman in question, was released in July while the decision was under review. The Attorney General had pushed for her continued imprisonment, but the court ruled in her favor.
The presiding judge criticized the arguments put forth by the Attorney General's office, calling some of them 'absurd.' Hemme's legal team, the Innocence Project, hailed the ruling as the end of a long-standing miscarriage of justice. Hemme's case was notable as she was believed to be the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman in the U.S.
