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Steven Truscott – Guilty or Innocent? In the year 1959, Steven Truscott, only 14 years old, was sentenced to hang for the murder of 12 year-old Lynn Harper. Trustcott’s sentence was commuted and instead he spent 10 years in prison but it wasn’t until almost 40 years later that he proclaimed his innocence. This essay will talk about the alleged crime that took place and some of the evidence used against Truscott to convict him and how we now realize most of that evidence had been twisted to make Truscott look guilty. Some controversial evidence used to convict Truscott is the time of death, the injuries that were said to have been found on Truscott and Harper, the footprints found at the crime scene, and the bicycle tire marks that were found in the ground near the crime scene. It was a hot and muggy evening in June. 14 year-old Steven Truscott decided he was going to take one