MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
IN POTENTIALLY CAPITAL CASES (1987)
by Hugo Adam Bedau and Michael L. Radelet

Excerpt from Appendix A: Catalogue of Defendants

HOLLAND, KENNETH R. (white). 1948. Virginia. Holland was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to twenty years in prison. He was a former police officer, and the victim was the husband of a friend. The conviction was reversed on appeal because of insufficient evidence.1 In 1950, Holland was acquitted at retrial.2

Footnotes

1. Holland v. Commonwealth, 190 Va. 32, 55 S.E.2d 437 (1949).
 
2. Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Apr. 15, 1950, at 13, col. 1.