Michael Linder South Carolina Conviction 1979 Acquitted 1981
Linder was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a
highway patrol officer. The prosecution maintained that Linder
shot the officer without provocation but Linder insisted that he
shot the officer in self-defense after the officer fired six
shots at him. At re-trial, previously undisclosed ballistics
evidence form a state crime lab confirmed Linder's self-defense
theory and Linder was acquitted. (State v. Linder, 278 S.E.2d 335
(S.C. 1981)).
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