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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Imprisoned:
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Charge: |
Child Abuse |
Sentence: |
Max. Sent. |
Year Convicted: |
1986 |
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Cleared:
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Location
of Trial:
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New York |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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One of The Bronx Five: 5 men working at day care centers in the Bronx prosecuted by Mario Merola in 1986 and whose convictions were overturned on appeal. (Albert Algerin worked at the Concourse Day Care Center.) Algerin was a codefendant of J. Torres and F. Beauchamp. The FBI secretly recorded 640 hours of video tape at the day care and no abuse took place. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Interview techniques of the children involved that produced false testimony and the implantation of false memories. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Defendant
Aided By:
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"Attorney Joel B. Rudin represented all five of The Bronx Five during stages of the appeal process. He said: "It was appalling, frightening .. It was the product of a very ambitious prosecutor who saw a good story and jumped on a national bandwagon. The true victims were the defendants." " |
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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21 |
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Information Source 1: |
Frontline: Innocence Lost - Other Well-Known Cases |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/innocence/etc/other.html |
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"Ritual Abuse Cases In Westchester, New York State" |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/ra_westc.htm |
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