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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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0 |
Charge: |
Draft Evasion (including Failure to Register) |
Sentence: |
5 years |
Year Convicted: |
1967 |
Year
Cleared:
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1971 |
Location
of Trial:
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Federal Case - Kentucky |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal) |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted in 1967 of draft evasion. The Supreme Court reversed his conviction based on the failure of the federal government to take Ali's religious beliefs into consideration before drafting him. Ali was stripped of his World Heavyweight Champtionship after refusing to be inducted. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Improper jury instructions submitted by the judge didn't allow for objection to military induction on grounds of religious convictions. And the fFailure of the government to take Ali's religious beliefs into account. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Known as Cassius Clay before converting to the Black Muslim faith. |
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Information Source 1: |
Clay v. U.S., 403 U.S. 698 (1971) |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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