David Mccallum Case Summary

The case of David McCallum who at the time of his charge was a sixteen-year-old boy was charged along with his friend Willie Stuckey who where charged for a kidnapping and murder. McCallum and Stuckey were found guilty of kidnapping and killing a young Queens’s man in 1986 and sentenced to 25 years for a crime he did not commit. He served a twenty-eight year sentence before being found not guilty and let out of prison. The main cause of the wrongful conviction was McCallum and Stuckey admitted kidnapping and killing 20-year-old Nathan Blenner and taking a joyride in his car. They quickly recanted but were convicted of murder. Lawyers for McCallum wrote Thompson a letter in January arguing that neither DNA nor handprints found at the scene of …show more content…
For the wrongful convection McCallum sued the widow of the detective who made him wrongful confess and the City of New York for a total of fifty million dollars for his time behind bars. I don’t think giving someone money for compensation is enough, I believe that they need to set them up with education so after being in prison for so long they can learn how to adapt back into society. They should also be set up with some type of job teaching them skills they either forgot or new things in society such as computers and other parts of technology that may have not been around when they went to prision. David McCallum life one year from being released from prison was according to him very good being able to get up everyday and not be in prison. He got a job, which happened to be his first job ever because he was only sixteen years old when he got arrested, at Manhattan legal oasis society as a support member and has been working at this job for about six months. David McCallum says that he cherries every moment out in the free world and takes nothing for