New-trial results
Here's what happened to the eight men granted new trials because of the Maryland Innocence Project's work.
Bernard Webster: Baltimore County 1983 rape case. Prosecutors dropped charges in 2002; another man later pleaded guilty to the crime.
Gregory Jones: Baltimore County 1985 double murder case. The jury hung in a retrial in 2005. Jones then took an "Alford plea," in which he admitted no wrongdoing but acknowledged the state had enough evidence to convict him. He was sentenced to time served.
Robert Griffin: Baltimore 1986 murder case. He took an Alford plea in 2006 to time served.
Rodney Addison: Baltimore 1998 murder case. At the start of his new trial in 2005, the state dismissed all charges.
Dante Parrish: Baltimore 1999 murder case. Pending new trial.
James Owens: Baltimore 1988 murder case. Pending new trial.
Clifton Footes: Prince George's County 1980 rape case. Accepted plea deal to lesser charges in 2006 and was sentenced to time served.
John Larry Thomas: Prince George's County 1994 rape case. Accepted plea deal to lesser charges in 2005 and was sentenced to time served.
Source Michele Nethercott of the Innocence Project.
