Daniel Brown

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Charge:	Murder and Burglary
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	20
Year Crime:	1981
Year Convicted:	1982
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Ohio
County or Region of Crime:	Lucas
City of Crime:	Toledo
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Daniel Brown aka Danny Brown was wrongly convicted of the 1981 rape and murder of a Toledo, Ohio woman he had been dating for several months. Danny Brown conviction was based on the eyewitness identification of the victim's shaken six-year old son, who only briefly saw the attacker. The trial judge characterized the boy's testimony as riddled with "glaring inconsistencies." (CM website). DNA testing excluded Daniel Brown as the attacker and identified the actual killer as a man serving a life sentence for a similar 1982 rape/murder. Daniel Brown was released on April 9, 2001."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness testimony by the victim's six-year old son.
Innocence Proved By:	DNA testing unavailable at the time of his conviction.
Defendant Aided By:	Centurion Ministries
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	24
Age When Released:	44
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	""Moment of Freedom," Dale Emch (staff writer), The Blade, April 10, 2002."
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Information Source 2:	Centurion Ministries website
Information Location 2:	http://www.centurionministries.org/cases.html
Information Source 3:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 3:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=86
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Daniel Brown

Charge:

Murder and Burglary

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

20

Year Crime:

1981

Year Convicted:

1982

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Ohio

County or Region of Crime:

Lucas

City of Crime:

Toledo

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness testimony by the victim's six-year old son.

Innocence Proved By:

DNA testing unavailable at the time of his conviction.

Defendant Aided By:

Centurion Ministries

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

24

Age When Released:

44

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

""Moment of Freedom," Dale Emch (staff writer), The Blade, April 10, 2002."

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Centurion Ministries website

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http://www.centurionministries.org/cases.html

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Innocence Project database

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=86

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