Jack Allen Carmen

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	2
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Year Convicted:	1975
Year Cleared:	1977
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Ohio
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Jack Allen Carmen was wrongly convicted of murder and rape based on his false confession. Carmen had an IQ between 43 and 55, and his memory was so bad that he only sometimes recognized his lawyers and he regularly asserted and then denied the same things. Carmen was released when several alibi witnesses gave unchallenged testimony that when the murder occurred, Carmen was inside the Volunteers of America Shelter, far from the crime scene."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession based on suggestibility due to a low mental level
Innocence Proved By:	"Alibi witnesses proved Carmen had been inside the Volunteers of America Shelter at the time of the murders, far from the crime location."
Defendant Aided By:	Alibi witnesses
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 103."
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Jack Allen Carmen

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1975

Year Cleared:

1977

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Ohio

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession based on suggestibility due to a low mental level

Innocence Proved By:

"Alibi witnesses proved Carmen had been inside the Volunteers of America Shelter at the time of the murders, far from the crime location."

Defendant Aided By:

Alibi witnesses

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 103."

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