Jack Ray Broam

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Charge:	Child Abuse
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	8
Year Crime:	1990
Year Convicted:	1990
Year Cleared:	1998
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Nevada
County or Region of Crime:	Churchill
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Jack Ray Broam was codefendant of Jay Cee Manning. Both men had maintained their innocence since Broam's son leveled sodomy charges against them at age 9 in 1990. In 1998 the 17 year-old son told a judge his mother locked him up and starved him until he falsely testified that his father and his father's co-worker sexually assaulted him.
Conviction Caused By:	"Under the duress of his disgrunted ex-wife, Jack Ray Broam's 9-year-old son falsely testified that him and friend Jay Cee Manning had sodomized the 9-year-old."
Innocence Proved By:	In 1998 Broam's 17 year-old son told a judge his mother locked him up and starved him when he was 9 y/o until he falsely testified that his father and his father's co-worker sexually assaulted him.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"AP wire story, Reno, NV 8-1-98"
Information Location 1:	"Reno, NV 8-1-98 (AP) Two men serving life sentences for sodomy convictions since 1990 were released from prison after their young accuser recanted his testimony. Jack Ray Broam, 38, and Jay Cee Manning, 37, both of Fallon, NV, had unwaveringly maintained their innocence since Broam's son leveled the charges eight years ago. The boy was 9 at the time and is 17 now. He told a judge this week that his mother locked him up and starved him until he testified that his father and his father's co-worker sexually assaulted him."
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Jack Ray Broam

Charge:

Child Abuse

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

8

Year Crime:

1990

Year Convicted:

1990

Year Cleared:

1998

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Nevada

County or Region of Crime:

Churchill

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Under the duress of his disgrunted ex-wife, Jack Ray Broam's 9-year-old son falsely testified that him and friend Jay Cee Manning had sodomized the 9-year-old."

Innocence Proved By:

In 1998 Broam's 17 year-old son told a judge his mother locked him up and starved him when he was 9 y/o until he falsely testified that his father and his father's co-worker sexually assaulted him.

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"AP wire story, Reno, NV 8-1-98"

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