Wrongful Convictions News

Missouri librarian's murderer Sandra Hemme to receive hearing for potential release.

Sandra Hemme, who has spent over 40 years in prison for a murder she may not have committed, will receive an evidentiary hearing that could lead to her release. Lawyers for the Innocence Project filed a petition in February seeking to exonerate and free Hemme, who was a patient at a psychiatric hospital when she gave conflicting statements about the murder to investigators. Her attorneys say the only evidence linking Hemme to Jeschke's death were "wildly contradictory" and "factually impossible" statements she gave to detectives while she was a patient at the St. Joseph State Hospital's psychiatric ward.