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Joseph Antoniewicz

Years Imprisoned:	16
Charge:	Felony Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Year Convicted:	1952
Year Cleared:	1968
Location of Trial:	Pennsylvania
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Co-defendant of William A. Hallowell & Edward H. Parks. All three were under 18 when wrongly convicted of felony-murder in the death of a man who died nine days after the three robbed him of $15. They all plead guilty and were sentenced to life in prison. In 1968 their convictions were overturned based on new evidence by the Philadelphia medical examiner that the victim "died as a result of a coronary heart disease, which was not caused, contributed to, or aggravated by the assault." The three co-defendants were released after 16 years of impriosnment."
Conviction Caused By:	Nine days after a man was robbed of $15 he died.
Innocence Proved By:	"Felony murder conviction overturned based on new evidence by the Philadelphia medical examiner that the victim "died as a result of a coronary heart disease, which was not caused, contributed to, or aggravated by the assault.""
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Information Source 1:	“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 282-3.
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Information Source 2:	“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 92.
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Ethnicity/Skin:	White
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Joseph Antoniewicz

Years Imprisoned:

16

Charge:

Felony Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Year Convicted:

1952

Year Cleared:

1968

Location of Trial:

Pennsylvania

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Nine days after a man was robbed of $15 he died.

Innocence Proved By:

"Felony murder conviction overturned based on new evidence by the Philadelphia medical examiner that the victim "died as a result of a coronary heart disease, which was not caused, contributed to, or aggravated by the assault.""

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“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 282-3.

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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. 92.

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