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Melvin Todd Beamon

 

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

25 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1988

Year Convicted:

1989

Year Cleared:

1990

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Alabama

County or Region of Crime:

Montgomery

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Melvin Todd Beamon was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, p. 285."

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