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The Sam Sheppard case may never be resolved. Based solely on the final outcome of his appeal, however, it would appear that he may have been unjustly accused of murder. He was not the first nor will he be the last physician to suffer this ignominy. As recently as 2005 one such case caught the national spotlight.
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Perper, J.A., Cina, S.J. (2010). Guilty Until Proven Innocent. In: When Doctors Kill. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1369-2_15
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