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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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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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Male |
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Black |
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"“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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