Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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First Degree Murder |
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Death |
Years Imprisoned: |
3 |
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Year Convicted: |
1983 |
Year Cleared: |
1986 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Florida |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
Anthony Silah Brown was wrongly convicted in 1983 of first-degee murder in Florida and sentenced to death. Brown was exonerated and released in 1986. |
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Sex: |
Male |
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Black |
Information Source 1: |
"Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases, Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 100+." |
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Death Penalty Information Center |
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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html |
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