Clarence Harrison Case

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1986 a young man released for armed robbery 3 years back, named Clarence Harrison, was falsely accused of raping a young mother near his home, and sentenced to life in prison. In this he is only one of the three men researched in this project, in which all were falsely accused of rape, two of them murder too. Three men, Leon Brown, his half-brother Henry McCollum, and one man Clarence Harrison, were all imprisoned for more than half their lives, on accounts of rape, and in one case, murder.

In case one Leon Brown, and his half-brother Henry McCollum, were accused of rape and murder, and sentenced to death of their actions. Although they did have the evidence that the victim went to McCollum's house about everyday for a cigarette (Sarah …show more content…

Before Clarence’s release, he had pushed for a new test as stated before, but the courts had denied, him and said it wouldn’t be possible, he later learned, that his tests had been destroyed (Helena Oliviero), months after being denied, though he did find one test sample accidentally kept (David Simpson). Also in his case, many eye witnesses, simply accused him, because he lived in the area of the crime (David Simpson), and he was found in a photograph, with the woman. In McCollum, and Brown’s case, they were said to have confessed, to the crime, yet it was never taped, nor proven, yet used against them anyways. In their case, they were both super young, at the age of 15, and 19, and had no physical evidence connecting them to the crime (Michael Biesecker), yet still prosecuted for it, without reasonable …show more content…

When Clarence was released, he had acquired a job in Mt. Paran christian school, just proving how innocent, he truly was. He was then given a compensation of 100,000 and an extra 900,000 over 20 years. Brown and McCollum were also compensated a money for missing over half their lives in prison, and almost being killed for a crime they had never committed. Brown after being released, stated he just wanted to get a job and start from there. Clarence stated he just wanted to go to Burger King and have a

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