Simon Bouie (Trespassing)

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Charge:	Criminal Trespass
Sentence:	30 days in jail or $100 fine
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Year Crime:	1960
Year Convicted:	1960
Year Cleared:	1964
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	South Carolina
County or Region of Crime:	Richland
City of Crime:	Columbia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Simon Bouie and Talmadge J. Neal were wrongly convicted on March 25, 1960 of criminal trespass in Columbia, South Carolina on March 14, 1960 when they were arrested for trespassing when they refused to leave a restaurant where they were sitting in a booth. On June 22, 1964.the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Bouie and Neals' trespassing convictions on the basis their conduct was not enumerated as a crime at the time of their arrests, so "they have been deprived of liberty and property without due process of law in contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment.""
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Innocence Proved By:	"On June 22, 1964.the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Bouie and Neals' trespassing convictions on the basis their conduct was not enumerated as a crime at the time of their arrests, so "they have been deprived of liberty and property without due process of law in contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment.""
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 US 347, 84 S.Ct. 1697, 12 L. Ed.2d 894 (1964)"
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Simon Bouie (Trespassing)

Charge:

Criminal Trespass

Sentence:

30 days in jail or $100 fine

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

1960

Year Convicted:

1960

Year Cleared:

1964

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

South Carolina

County or Region of Crime:

Richland

City of Crime:

Columbia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

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Innocence Proved By:

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

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"Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 US 347, 84 S.Ct. 1697, 12 L. Ed.2d 894 (1964)"

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"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7959786931192237860&q=378+US+347&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"

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