# Walter McMillian

Overturned · 1988

Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (October 27, 1941 – September 11, 2013) was a pulpwood worker from Monroeville, Alabama, who was wrongfully convicted of murder. His conviction was wrongfully obtained, based on police coercion and perjury. In the 1988 trial, under a controversial and now abolished Alabama doctrine known as judicial override, the judge imposed the death penalty, although the jury had voted for a sentence…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=19843894
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/walter-mcmillian-w19843894

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