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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Second Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
15 years to life imprisonment |
Years Imprisoned: |
5 |
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Year Convicted: |
1981 |
Year Cleared: |
1986 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
California |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
Tony Cooks was wrongly convicted of murder. |
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Male |
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Black |
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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. 107." |
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