Pitts and Lee v. Florida
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Pitts and Lee v. Florida
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Pitts and Lee v. Florida (1963) was a criminal case in which two African-American defendants were charged with murder. The case is remembered for its Civil Rights implications, and because it involved two death-row inmates who were later exonerated. The prosecutors deliberately tampered with evidence, and the men were sentenced to death by an all-white jury, Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee were imprisoned for twelve years before being pardoned by then-Florida Governor Reubin Askew on September
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1963 criminal case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitts_and_Lee_v._Florida
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2023-12-06T13:11:19Z
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