Condy Dabney

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	1
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Year Convicted:	1926
Year Cleared:	1927
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Kentucky
County or Region of Crime:	Harlan
City of Crime:	Coxton
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Condy Dabney was wrongly convicted in 1926 of murder in Kentucky. Dabney was sentenced to life in prison. After a year in prison, the supposed victim turned up alive and Dabney's conviction was overturned and he was released. The conviction was obtained by the false testimony of a witness who was convicted of perjury after Dabney's release."
Conviction Caused By:	The conviction was obtained by false testimony of a witness convicted of perjury after Dabney's exoneration..
Innocence Proved By:	Dabney's supposed victim turned up alive and he was immediately released after a year in prison.
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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. 109."
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Information Source 2:	"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932"
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Condy Dabney

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1926

Year Cleared:

1927

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Kentucky

County or Region of Crime:

Harlan

City of Crime:

Coxton

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

The conviction was obtained by false testimony of a witness convicted of perjury after Dabney's exoneration..

Innocence Proved By:

Dabney's supposed victim turned up alive and he was immediately released after a year in prison.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

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. 109."

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

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