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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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36 |
Charge: |
Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1968 |
Year
Cleared:
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2004 |
Location
of Trial:
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Maryland |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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"Wrongly convicted in 1968 of murder. After two years of work by faculty and students at the University of Maryland Law School, MD Governor commuted Arvinger's sentence and he was released in the fall of 2004." |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Innocence
Proved By:
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Sentence commutted by Maryland Governor Erlich in fall of 2004.
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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19 |
Age
When Released:
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55 |
Information Source 1: |
"A Stain on Maryland, Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, November 30, 2004, p. A19" |
Information
Location 1:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20888-2004Nov29.html |
Information
Source 2:
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"Listen to NPR story on how students who worked to free Walter Arvinger - a man wrongly convicted and in prison for 36 years, News and Events, Univ of Maryland Law School website, 2005" |
Information
Location 2:
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http://www.law.umaryland.edu/news_detail.asp?news=23 |
Information
Source 3:
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"Starting all over' in life outside prison, Baltimore Sun, November 30, 2004" |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Black |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org