Darrell Cameron

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Charge:	Robbery (includes armed robbery)
Sentence:	Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing
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Year Crime:	1991
Year Convicted:	1991
Year Cleared:	1992
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Cook
City of Crime:	Chicago
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Darrell Cameron was wrongly convicted in 1992 of a robbery in Chicago in 1991. Cameron was convicted based on the victim's identification of him in a line-up. Prior to Cameron's sentencing the judge vacated his conviction and ordered a judgment of acquittal based on a state police handwriting expert's report that another man, Charles Bell, who had been convicted of similar robberies, admitted to the robbery Cameron had been convicted of committing. It was also discovered that the prosecutors had failed to disclose prior to Cameron's trial that Bell had confessed to the four robberies Cameron had been arrested as a suspect of committing. After Cameron's acquittal the prosecutors tried him of one of the other robberies Bell had confessed to committing. After a bench (judge only) trial Cameron was acquitted."
Conviction Caused By:	Prosecutor misconduct of failing to disclose that the actual culprit had confessed prior to Cameron's trial.
Innocence Proved By:	"Prior to Cameron's sentencing the judge vacated his conviction and ordered a judgment of acquittal based on a state police handwriting expert's report that another man, Charles Bell, who had been convicted of similar robberies admitted to the robbery Cameron had been convicted of committing."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Darrell Cameron, The National Registry of Exonerations"
Information Location 1:	https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3082
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Darrell Cameron

Charge:

Robbery (includes armed robbery)

Sentence:

Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

1991

Year Convicted:

1991

Year Cleared:

1992

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Chicago

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Prosecutor misconduct of failing to disclose that the actual culprit had confessed prior to Cameron's trial.

Innocence Proved By:

"Prior to Cameron's sentencing the judge vacated his conviction and ordered a judgment of acquittal based on a state police handwriting expert's report that another man, Charles Bell, who had been convicted of similar robberies admitted to the robbery Cameron had been convicted of committing."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Darrell Cameron, The National Registry of Exonerations"

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https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3082

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