Louis DeMore

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
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Year Convicted:	1934
Year Cleared:	1934
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Missouri
County or Region of Crime:	St. Louis
City of Crime:	St. Louis
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Louis DeMore joked to police on street that he fit the description of a killer and he was arrested in St. Louis. In May 1934, DeMore falsely confessed and pled guilty to the murder to escape a death sentence police threatened him with if he would be convicted after a trial. He was exonerated when the real killer was captured and confessed. Missouri Governor Guy Park pardoned DeMore in Oct. 1934."
Conviction Caused By:	"Falsely confessed under intense police interrogation in which he was threatened that he would be receive a death sentence if he kept insisting he was innocent and went to trial and was convicted. Also, eyewitness error."
Innocence Proved By:	Actual murderer was arrested and confessed. Pardoned by Missouri Governor Guy Park in Oct. 1934.
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Compensation Awarded:	No
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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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. 110."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251-2."
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Louis DeMore

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1934

Year Cleared:

1934

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Missouri

County or Region of Crime:

St. Louis

City of Crime:

St. Louis

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Falsely confessed under intense police interrogation in which he was threatened that he would be receive a death sentence if he kept insisting he was innocent and went to trial and was convicted. Also, eyewitness error."

Innocence Proved By:

Actual murderer was arrested and confessed. Pardoned by Missouri Governor Guy Park in Oct. 1934.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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. 110."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251-2."

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