Warren K. Billings

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life
Years Imprisoned:	23
Year Crime:	1916
Year Convicted:	1916
Year Cleared:	1939
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	San Francisco
City of Crime:	San Francisco
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Thomas Joseph Mooney was codefendant of Warren K. Billings. Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings were wrongly convicted after separate trials of murder for what became known as the San Francisco Preparedness Day Bombing on July 22, 1916. Mooney and Billings were convicted based on "perjury, subornation of perjury, and the suppression of evidence by the prosecution." Both men were sentenced to death, but in 1918 their sentences were commutted to life in prison. Mooney and Billings were separately pardoned in 1939 by California Governor Culbert Olson and released after 23 years of imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	"Prosecutorial misconduct, concealment of exonerating evidence and police perjury."
Innocence Proved By:	Mooney and Billings were separately pardoned in 1939 by California Governor Culbert Olson and released after 23 years of imprisonment.
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Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	46
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 98."
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Warren K. Billings

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life

Years Imprisoned:

23

Year Crime:

1916

Year Convicted:

1916

Year Cleared:

1939

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

San Francisco

City of Crime:

San Francisco

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Prosecutorial misconduct, concealment of exonerating evidence and police perjury."

Innocence Proved By:

Mooney and Billings were separately pardoned in 1939 by California Governor Culbert Olson and released after 23 years of imprisonment.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

46

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 98."

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