Parole advocacy
Khali Pyatt
Eighty-one years with no parole, handed to a nineteen-year-old accomplice who has since founded a nonprofit and published a book.
Wrongful conviction
Anthony Dustin McMillan
Sixteen years served on a conviction built from unrecorded evidence, a failed Miranda warning, and an eyewitness who could not identify him.
- Jurisdiction
- Virginia
- Years served
- 16
- Remaining
- ~10 yrs
- Record
- Infraction free
- Our filing
- Clemency
The case and the injustice
Anthony Dustin McMillan has been serving a sentence in the Virginia Department of Corrections for the last 16 years with another decade looming over his head. Dustin was convicted of a robbery on the primary evidence from a detective who not only failed to record evidence but also was negligent in securing proper Miranda statements from Dustin.
The eyewitness clerk at the convenience store could not identify Dustin as being there. The fingerprint evidence came back inconclusive, but only after that part of the trial had concluded.
No door left open in the courts
Due to judiciary time limits, Dustin is virtually barred from relief through court proceedings. In Dustin's case, he was forced to prove he did not confess to a crime he did not commit. Dustin's imprisonment is a product of improper procedures in the handling of evidence plus the poor guidance of ineffective counsel.
Dustin longs to be a good father to his only son, who was born the year Dustin was incarcerated. He has remained infraction-free and employed during his entire time of incarceration.
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Juvenile sentence
Deshawn Dye
Fifteen to life handed to a seventeen-year-old. Twenty-two years later he is being held indefinitely.
Parole advocacy
Larry Capers
Thirty years in, serving life plus 116 years for a sentence handed down when he was 18.
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