James Tillman (basketball)
James or Jim Tillman may refer to: *James Calvin Tillman, American former prisoner, exonerated of the crime for which he was imprisoned * James D. Tillman (1841–1916), American Treasury official and politician *James Fount Tillman (1854–1899), American diplomat and politician *James H. Tillman (1869–1911), Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina *James Tillman (baseball) (1919–2009), Negro league baseball player * James Tillman (basketball), American basketball player * Jim K. Tillman (1935–2012), Florida state legislator, rancher and criminologist *Jim Tillman, American musician and member of The U-Men The U-Men was an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1980 and active until 1989. They toured extensively across the United States. Their musically "dirty" sound and off-the-wall sense of humor were a forerunner for the later gr ...

James Calvin Tillman
James Calvin Tillman is a man who was wrongfully convicted of rape, and served 18.5 years in prison before being exonerated by DNA testing on July 11, 2006. Tillman, of East Hartford Connecticut, was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, sexual assault in the first degree, robbery and assault in the third degree in 1989, and freed in 2007. Crime Tillman, a black man, was wrongfully convicted for an attack on a white woman in Hartford, Connecticut that occurred on January 22, 1988. The victim entered her car in an outdoor parking lot at approximately 12:45 A.M. after leaving a bar. Her attacker opened the driver's side door of her car and raped her. Judicial appeal Tillman appealed the conviction in the Supreme Court of Connecticut in 1991 (220 Conn. 487, 600 A.2d 738). The Supreme Court upheld the conviction finding that the jury array was not unconstitutionally assembled, alleged errors in jury instruction did not warrant a new trial and certain field notes were ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]