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H. A. Clements

 

Charge:

Robbery (includes armed robbery)

Sentence:

5 years

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Year Cleared:

1929

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"H. A. Clements was wrongly convicted of robbery based on a witnesses identification of him, even though the robbers appearance was concealed by masks and hats."

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness error

Innocence Proved By:

Actual cuprit discovered.

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932"

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