Willie A. Brown

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	5
Year Crime:	1981
Year Convicted:	1983
Year Cleared:	1988
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Florida
County or Region of Crime:	Union
City of Crime:	Raiford
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Willie A. Brown was codefendant of Larry Troy. Troy and Brown were wrongly convicted in 1983 of first-degree murder of a fellow inmate on July 7, 1981 while they were imprisoned at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, Florida. They were both sentenced to death. The convictions of Troy and Brown were overturned, and the charges were dismissed in 1988."
Conviction Caused By:	Testimony of a sole inmate informant considered reliable.
Innocence Proved By:	The convictions were overturned after the credibility of the prosecution's sole witness was destroyed.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, p. 291."
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Willie A. Brown

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

1981

Year Convicted:

1983

Year Cleared:

1988

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Florida

County or Region of Crime:

Union

City of Crime:

Raiford

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Testimony of a sole inmate informant considered reliable.

Innocence Proved By:

The convictions were overturned after the credibility of the prosecution's sole witness was destroyed.

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, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, p. 291."

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http://www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/%5CDocuments%5CCase_updates%5CHtm%5C022401.htm

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