Randolph Arledge Case

Texas has 125 records of wrongful convictions since 1989. Unlawfully charging someone with a crime they did not commit, barely looking at the evidence, wrongly convicting someone so they are sentenced to life in prison was the case for both Randolph Arledge and Kennedy Brewer . Randolph Arledge was convicted for the murder of Carolyn Armstrong and Kennedy Brewer for the slaying of Christina Jackson. Both Brewer and Arledge have what they were charged for, evidence behind the story, why they were released and how many years they were in prison until they were released To start off Randolph Arledge was an ordinary man who was a victim of being wrongly convicted for a crime he did not commit. First, an innocent man was sentenced to many years in prison. Randolph Arledge was released from prison after twenty nine years when he was sentenced to ninety nine (McCathchy). Arledge was released after DNA testing, that he was innocent. Next he …show more content…
Brewer was not alone that night, his girlfriend was with him and was also convicted for the crime. One saturday night in May of 1992 Brewer stayed in the house with Christine and two other children, Jackson came home at 12:30 am and he only got up twice that night (Dewan). Ms. Jackson said that Brewer only got up twice and she said it was to change a diaper and to get a bottle. If that is true, Brewer would have no time to kill Christina. There was a very similar story about two years before Christina was killed. Almost two years before Christine’s death, another three year old (Courtney Smith) had disappeared from her bedroom and was found raped and murdered in a nearby pond. And in this story the mother's boyfriend was sentenced to life in prison (Dewan). This story made people question if it was actually Brewer who killed Christina or if it was the same person who killed Courtney. After DNA testing was improved, many people were released after they were proven