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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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1 |
Charge: |
Second Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
15 yrs |
Year Convicted: |
1979 |
Year
Cleared:
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1980 |
Location
of Trial:
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Florida |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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"Brett Bachelor was convicted of second-degree murder in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison. At the subsequent trial of an alleged co-defendant, evidence showed that a key witness had erroneously identified Bachelor. The co-defendant was acquitted. Eight months after Bachelor had bene found guilty, in 1980 the trial court ordered him released from prison. ('“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” p. 284)" |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Erroneous eyewitness identification. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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After evidence surfaced that the eyewitness had erroneously identified Brett Bachelor the trial judge vacated his conviction and ordered his release from prison.
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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. 284." |
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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. 93." |
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White |
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