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- Ricky Jackson (born 1957), Ronnie Bridgeman (born 1957) and Wiley Bridgeman (born 1954) are African Americans who were wrongfully convicted of murder as young men in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 and sentenced to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1977. They were imprisoned for decades before each of the three was exonerated in late 2014. Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman were released that year. (Ronnie Bridgeman, by then known as Kwame Ajamu, had been paroled in 2003 after 28 years in prison, and had been successful in his new life.) According to the National Registry of Exonerations, Jackson was imprisoned for 39 years on this wrongful conviction. This was believed to be the longest record for someone who has been exonerated. Wiley Bridgeman served nearly as long. The death sentences of each of the three men were commuted to life imprisonment after an appeals court ruled the jury had received incorrect instructions in their cases. Wiley and Ronnie Bridgeman were initially released on parole in 2002 and 2003, respectively, after spending 27 and 28 years in jail. Wiley Bridgeman was later imprisoned again because of a parole violation. Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman were ultimately released on November 21, 2014 after the key witness in their jury trial recanted his testimony during a hearing in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. The conviction of Ronnie Bridgeman (now known as Kwame Ajamu) was thrown out in December 2014, and he was also fully exonerated. All three men received several million dollars in settlements from the state in 2015 and 2016 as compensation for their imprisonment and lost wages due to the wrongful convictions. (en)
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- Ricky Jackson (born 1957), Ronnie Bridgeman (born 1957) and Wiley Bridgeman (born 1954) are African Americans who were wrongfully convicted of murder as young men in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 and sentenced to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 1977. They were imprisoned for decades before each of the three was exonerated in late 2014. Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman were released that year. (Ronnie Bridgeman, by then known as Kwame Ajamu, had been paroled in 2003 after 28 years in prison, and had been successful in his new life.) (en)
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- Ricky Jackson, Ronnie Bridgeman, and Wiley Bridgeman (en)
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