Robert Coleman

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	4
Year Crime:	1929
Year Convicted:	1929
Year Cleared:	1933
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Georgia
County or Region of Crime:	Clayton
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Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Robert Coleman was wrongly convicted after he reported the murder of his wife and was then arrested as the prime suspect. Coleman was convicted on circumstantial evidence by a jury, and he was sentenced to life in prison. The actual killer confessed while in prison for another crime. Based on that new evidence of his innocence Coleman was granted an unconditional pardon by Georgia's governor on April 14, 1933, and the Georgia legislature appropriated him $25,000 in compensation on March 27, 1941 for his four years of wrongful imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	"Convenient suspect, since Robert Coleman was the person who reported the murder to the police."
Innocence Proved By:	"The actual killer confessed while in prison for another crime. Coleman was granted an unconditional pardon by Georgia's governor on April 14, 1933, and the Georgia legislature appropriated him $25,000 in compensation on March 27, 1941 for his four years of wrongful imprisonment."
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Compensation Awarded:	"$25,000 (State of Georgia, 1941)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	22
Age When Released:	26
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. 106."
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Information Source 2:	In Spite of Innocence
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Information Source 3:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 190."
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Robert Coleman

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

4

Year Crime:

1929

Year Convicted:

1929

Year Cleared:

1933

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Georgia

County or Region of Crime:

Clayton

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Convenient suspect, since Robert Coleman was the person who reported the murder to the police."

Innocence Proved By:

"The actual killer confessed while in prison for another crime. Coleman was granted an unconditional pardon by Georgia's governor on April 14, 1933, and the Georgia legislature appropriated him $25,000 in compensation on March 27, 1941 for his four years of wrongful imprisonment."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$25,000 (State of Georgia, 1941)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

22

Age When Released:

26

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. 106."

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In Spite of Innocence

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 190."

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