Terry Chalmers

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Charge:	"Rape, Sodomy and Kidnapping"
Sentence:	12 to 24 years
Years Imprisoned:	8.33
Year Crime:	1986
Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	1995
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Westchester
City of Crime:	Vernon
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Terry Chalmers was wrongly convicted in 1987 of rape, sodomy and robbery in Vernon, New York. The victim was unable to identify Chalmers from a photo lineup the day after the attack, but 46 days later she picked him out of a photo lineup with the coaching of the police. After his conviction by a jury Chalmers was sentenced to 12 to 24 years in prison. Post-conviction DNA testing excluded Chalmers. Chalmers conviction was overturned and he was released from prison in 1995."
Conviction Caused By:	False eyewitness identification and police misconduct of coaching the witness to identify Chalmers when she didn't know he was her attacker.
Innocence Proved By:	Post-conviction DNA testing excluded Chalmers as the woman's assailant.
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Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	27
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 1:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=05
Information Source 2:	"Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence after Trial, by Edward Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller and Tom McEwen (US DOJ, National Institute of Justice, June 1996)"
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Terry Chalmers

Charge:

"Rape, Sodomy and Kidnapping"

Sentence:

12 to 24 years

Years Imprisoned:

8.33

Year Crime:

1986

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

1995

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Westchester

City of Crime:

Vernon

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False eyewitness identification and police misconduct of coaching the witness to identify Chalmers when she didn't know he was her attacker.

Innocence Proved By:

Post-conviction DNA testing excluded Chalmers as the woman's assailant.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

27

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

Innocence Project database

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=05

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"Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence after Trial, by Edward Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller and Tom McEwen (US DOJ, National Institute of Justice, June 1996)"

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