Justice for Wrongfully Convicted David Wong during Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

Justice for Wrongfully Convicted David Wong during Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

This new article features CAAAV’s celebration of the Mid-Autumn festival, which is similarly reported in item #2578. The reporter particularly zoomed in on describing how the David Wong Support Committee raised awareness regarding overturning the conviction for David Kin-Jin Wong, who was imprisoned for 17 years. While serving a sentence for armed robbery in a correctional facility, David Wong was charged with murder after a cellmate was stabbed to death. The wrongfully convicted revealed multiple unjust flaws of the criminal justice system: falsified testimonies of the police guard, a fully white jury, absence of language access services to translate David Wong’s Fujianese dialect, and more. After years of dedicated grassroots efforts, the case was overturned in 2004.

Sources Regarding David Wong’s Case:
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/22/nyregion/after-17-years-an-overturned-conviction-and-new-hope.html
https://innocenceproject.org/news/four-wrongly-convicted-asian-americans-you-should-know-2/

Guowen Liao - Sing Tao Daily （星岛日报）

September 15, 2003

Source: Guowen Liao - Sing Tao Daily （星岛日报）
Digitized by: Cynthia Zhang
Catalogued by: Laine Yu-Jing

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