Johnny Briscoe

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Charge:	Statutory Rape
Sentence:	45 years
Years Imprisoned:	23.8
Year Crime:	1982
Year Convicted:	1983
Year Cleared:	2006
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Missouri
County or Region of Crime:	St Louis
City of Crime:	St Louis
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Johnny Briscoe was wrongly convicted of a 1982 rape after a trial in 1983 and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Briscoe's conviction was based on the victim's ID of him. A composite based on the victim's description of her attacker resembled Brisco, and she then identified him at his trial.Briscoe's alibi was that the night of the attack he was home with his 16 year old nephew watching a St Louis Cardinals baseball game. Centurion Ministries began working on Briscoe's case in 2000. DNA tests unavailable at the time of his conviction excluded him as the woman's attacker. "
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous ID by the victim.
Innocence Proved By:	DNA tests unavailable at the time of his conviction excluded him as the woman's attacker.
Defendant Aided By:	Centurion Ministries
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	29
Age When Released:	53
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Man freed after wrongful conviction 'lost for words', William Lhotka, St Louis Post-Dispatch, July 19, 2006"
Information Location 1:	http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9F2CE4647A555230862571B1001F2F24?OpenDocument
Information Source 2:	"Man freed by dna evidence says, 'i never stopped believing', Jeremy Kohler, St Louis Post-Dispatch, July 21, 2006"
Information Location 2:	http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/emaf.nsf/Popup?ReadForm&db=stltoday%5Cnews%5Cstories.nsf&docid=5E832251B941D3F7862571B2000F14DA
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Johnny Briscoe

Charge:

Statutory Rape

Sentence:

45 years

Years Imprisoned:

23.8

Year Crime:

1982

Year Convicted:

1983

Year Cleared:

2006

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Missouri

County or Region of Crime:

St Louis

City of Crime:

St Louis

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous ID by the victim.

Innocence Proved By:

DNA tests unavailable at the time of his conviction excluded him as the woman's attacker.

Defendant Aided By:

Centurion Ministries

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

29

Age When Released:

53

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Man freed after wrongful conviction 'lost for words', William Lhotka, St Louis Post-Dispatch, July 19, 2006"

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/9F2CE4647A555230862571B1001F2F24?OpenDocument

Information Source 2:

"Man freed by dna evidence says, 'i never stopped believing', Jeremy Kohler, St Louis Post-Dispatch, July 21, 2006"

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/emaf.nsf/Popup?ReadForm&db=stltoday%5Cnews%5Cstories.nsf&docid=5E832251B941D3F7862571B2000F14DA

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