Walter Arvinger

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	36
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Year Convicted:	1968
Year Cleared:	2004
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Maryland
County or Region of Crime:	Baltimore
City of Crime:	Baltimore
Result:	Sentence Commuted
Summary of Case:	"Walter Arvinger was 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:
Innocence Proved By:	Sentence commutted by Maryland Governor Erlich in fall of 2004.
Defendant Aided By:	University of Maryland Law School
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	55
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"A Stain on Maryland, Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, November 30, 2004, p. A19"
Information Location 1:	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20888-2004Nov29.html
Information Source 2:	"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:	http://www.law.umaryland.edu/news_detail.asp?news=23
Information Source 3:	"Starting all over' in life outside prison, Baltimore Sun, November 30, 2004"
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Walter Arvinger

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

36

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1968

Year Cleared:

2004

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Maryland

County or Region of Crime:

Baltimore

City of Crime:

Baltimore

Result:

Sentence Commuted

Summary of Case:

"Walter Arvinger was 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:

Innocence Proved By:

Sentence commutted by Maryland Governor Erlich in fall of 2004.

Defendant Aided By:

University of Maryland Law School

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

55

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"A Stain on Maryland, Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, November 30, 2004, p. A19"

Information Location 1:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20888-2004Nov29.html

Information Source 2:

"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:

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/news_detail.asp?news=23

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"Starting all over' in life outside prison, Baltimore Sun, November 30, 2004"

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