Ghanaian Court Evidence Used to Overturn Fraud Conviction

On April 19, 1993, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, on the basis of newly discovered evidence gleaned from a criminal case in Ghana, vacated a criminal fraud conviction. At the lower court level, the defendant William Howard Garland, a Columbus, Ohio businessman who normally buys and sells heavy machine tools and construction equipment, was convicted of one count of interstate fraud arising from a failed attempt to purchase 5,000 metric tons of cocoa beans from Ghana, West Africa…[more]