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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Robbery (includes armed robbery) |
Sentence: |
3 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
0.42 |
Year Crime: |
2006 |
Year Convicted: |
2006 |
Year Cleared: |
2007 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Florida |
County or Region of Crime: |
Palm Beach |
City of Crime: |
West Palm Beach |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Wrongly convicted on October 16, 2006 of the February 2006 gunpoint robbery of a bar in West Palm Beach, Florida. His conviction was based on his identification by two eyewitnesses who selected him from a line-up. Cody Davis was sentenced to three years in prison. In March 2007 he was exonerated by DNA testing that wasn't done prior to his trial. He was released after five months of wrongful imprisonment." |
Conviction Caused By: |
Erroneous identification by two eyewitnesses who selected him from a line-up. |
Innocence Proved By: |
DNA testing of evidence that wasn't tested prior to his October 2006 trial. |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
Yes |
Age When Imprisoned: |
21 |
Age When Released: |
21 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Man, wrongfully imprisoned in '06, avoids long sentence for latest run-in, By Susan Spencer-Wendel, Palm Beach Post, December 27, 2008" |
Information Location 1: |
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2008/12/27/a1a_dna_1228.html |
Information Source 2: |
Innocence Project of Florida website |
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http://www.floridainnocence.org/cody_davis.html |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org