Joseph Green Brown

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	13
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Year Convicted:	1974
Year Cleared:	1987
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Florida
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Joseph Green Brown was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in Florida. Brown ws convicted on the basis of one witness who testified he was Brown's accomplice. The alleged accomplice was never prosecuted. A federal appeals court ruled that the prosecutor, who became a Tampa, Florida circuit judge, "knowingly used false testimony" during Brown's trial. (St. Petersburg Times 3/14/87)"
Conviction Caused By:	Perjured testimony of a prosecution informant who was never prosecuted in spite of admitting to being an accomplice in the murder.
Innocence Proved By:	Reversal of conviction by appeals court.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, p. 290."
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Information Source 2:	Death Penalty Information Center
Information Location 2:	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html
Information Source 3:	"St. Peterburg Times, March 14, 1987"
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Joseph Green Brown

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

13

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1974

Year Cleared:

1987

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Florida

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjured testimony of a prosecution informant who was never prosecuted in spite of admitting to being an accomplice in the murder.

Innocence Proved By:

Reversal of conviction by appeals court.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, p. 290."

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Death Penalty Information Center

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html

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"St. Peterburg Times, March 14, 1987"

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