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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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2 |
Charge: |
Manslaughter |
Sentence: |
10 to 15 years |
Year Convicted: |
1944 |
Year
Cleared:
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1946 |
Location
of Trial:
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Connecticut |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Delphine Bertrand falsely pled guilty to manslaughter in April 1944 to conceal that she was having sex with a man in a house at the same time, unbeknowst to her the victim was killed by two other men. After the killers confessed, the indictment against her was dismissed in July 1946. She falsely confessed to murder because she thought it was better than having her sex life publicly revealed during a trial. No compensation was awarded for 2 years of wrongful imprisonment. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False confession to killing a man she didn't kill or harm in any way. |
Innocence
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After the actual killers (two men) confessed, the indictment against Bertrand was dismissed, and she was released in July 1946.
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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. 97. |
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The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251. |
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White |
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