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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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10 |
Charge: |
First Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Death and Executed |
Year Convicted: |
1974 |
Year
Cleared:
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Location
of Trial:
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Florida |
Result:
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Not Judicially Exonerated |
Summary
of Case:
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Executed in 1984 in spite of compelling evidence of Adams innocence, including the release of a report by the Florida crime lab 3 days after his sentencing that the attackers hairs found in the victims hand did not match Adams. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Eyewitness error and delayed release of hair analysis report by the prosecution'ss crime lab until after Adams sentencing that exonerates him. |
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Proved By:
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Information Source 1: |
In Spite of Innocence, By Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau & Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press p. 5-10. |
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Source 2:
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“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 91 |
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http://lairdcarlson.com/grip/Adams/Case%20Summary.htm |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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