Source: Innocence Project
Darryl Hunt
Racial discrimination seemed to be one of the hearts of the false imprisonment of Darryl Hunt, an African-American man wrongly accused of the rape and murder of a white woman. The all-white jury in North Carolina sentenced Darryl to life imprisonment in 1984 with not a shred of evidence to link him to the crimes.
Hunt was eventually cleared of the rape aspect of the crime through DNA evidence in 1994. Despite how much this new evidence suggested he was not the murderer, he was only excused for the rape charge and served another nine years in prison. He was finally exonerated in 2004 when the real criminal William Brown admitted what he had done. Hunt, by this point, had lost 19 years of his life in prison.
