Edward Chalk

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Charge:	Loitering With Intent
Sentence:	Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
Year Crime:	1936
Year Convicted:	1936
Year Cleared:	1936
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Maryland
County or Region of Crime:	Baltimore
City of Crime:	Reistertown
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Edward Chalk was wrongly convicted of loitering with intent, for fleeing from the police on May 12, 1936 in Reisterstown, Maryland. During the five months that Chalk was jailed awaiting trial Joseph C. Martin confessed to police he drove the car and Chalk wasn't involved. Chalk was nevertheless taken to trial and convicted based on his identification by two eyewitnesses and two police officers who had accosted the loitering men. Chalk filed a motion for a new trial prior to his sentencing, and while that was pending the police apprehended Martin's accomplice proving Chalk had not been involved in the crime. The charges against Chalk were dismissed and he was released."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous identification by four eyewitnesses.
Innocence Proved By:	"Chalk filed a motion for a new trial prior to his sentencing, and while that was pending the police apprehended Martin's accomplice proving Chalk had not been involved in the crime."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, P. 194"
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Edward Chalk

Charge:

Loitering With Intent

Sentence:

Exonerated After Conviction But Prior to Sentencing

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

1936

Year Convicted:

1936

Year Cleared:

1936

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Maryland

County or Region of Crime:

Baltimore

City of Crime:

Reistertown

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous identification by four eyewitnesses.

Innocence Proved By:

"Chalk filed a motion for a new trial prior to his sentencing, and while that was pending the police apprehended Martin's accomplice proving Chalk had not been involved in the crime."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Male

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, P. 194"

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