When Missouri police were searching for a suspect in a gruesome killing in 1980, they interviewed Sandra Hemme, a 20-year-old psychiatric patient, Hemme’s attorneys said. But Hemme was so heavily medicated during some of the conversations that she couldn’t hold her head up and needed to be strapped to a chair, according to her attorneys.
But the Innocence Project, a nonprofit that aims to exonerate people who it says were wrongfully convicted, said it filed a petition in the Livingston County Circuit Court last year, arguing that police exploited Hemme’s mental health and pressured her into making false statements, leading her to be wrongly imprisoned in 1981 on a life sentence that she’s still serving.
The Innocence Project didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment but said in a statement to the AP: “We are grateful to the Court for acknowledging the grave injustice Ms. Hemme has endured.”Police began investigating Hemme, who lived in Concordia, Mo., about two weeks later when she carried a knife to the home of one of her former nurses, according to the AP.
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