Jermaine Dollard

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Charge:	Drug related and Conspiracy
Sentence:	20 years
Years Imprisoned:	2.5
Year Crime:	2012
Year Convicted:	2013
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Delaware
County or Region of Crime:	Kent
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Jermaine Dollard was wrongly convicted in 2012 of drug charges related to his alleged supplying of cocaine to a Kent County distribution ring. Dollard's prosecution was based on a substance allegedly seized from him on June 13, 2012 that was asserted to be cocaine by the Deleware Controlled Substances Lab in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). After his conviction, in 2013 Dollard was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Dollard filed a motion for a new trial after it was publicly reported that investigators discovered more than 50 pieces of drug evidence had been tampered with at the OCME between 2010 and 2014, which resulted in the Delaware State Police closing the controlled substances lab in February, 2014 and the Delaware Legislature eliminating the OCME. The judge ordered the substance to be retested, and on January 7, 2015 the tests came back negative for cocaine -- and it was in fact powdered sugar. Based on the new evidence that Dollard's conviction was based on false expert testimony and their was no evidence he was in possession of a controlled substance, his conviction was reversed, the charges dismissed, and he was released after almost 3 years in custody."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Based on new evidence that Dollard's conviction was based on false expert testimony and their was no evidence he was in possession of a controlled substance, his conviction was reversed, the charges dismissed, and he was released after almost 3 years in custody."
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Age When Imprisoned:	38
Age When Released:	40
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Drug lab scandal: Man released after cocaine retested, By Jessica Masulli Reyes (Staff), The News Journal, January 17, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/01/17/drug-lab-scandal-man-released-cocaine-retested/21912275/
Information Source 2:	"A Man Spent Two Years in Prison for ‘Cocaine’ That Was Powdered Sugar, By Alex Swerdloff, munchies.vice.com, January 28, 2016"
Information Location 2:	https://munchies.vice.com/articles/a-man-spent-two-years-in-prison-for-cocaine-that-was-powdered-sugar
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Jermaine Dollard

Charge:

Drug related and Conspiracy

Sentence:

20 years

Years Imprisoned:

2.5

Year Crime:

2012

Year Convicted:

2013

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Delaware

County or Region of Crime:

Kent

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on new evidence that Dollard's conviction was based on false expert testimony and their was no evidence he was in possession of a controlled substance, his conviction was reversed, the charges dismissed, and he was released after almost 3 years in custody."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

38

Age When Released:

40

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Drug lab scandal: Man released after cocaine retested, By Jessica Masulli Reyes (Staff), The News Journal, January 17, 2015"

Information Location 1:

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/01/17/drug-lab-scandal-man-released-cocaine-retested/21912275/

Information Source 2:

"A Man Spent Two Years in Prison for ‘Cocaine’ That Was Powdered Sugar, By Alex Swerdloff, munchies.vice.com, January 28, 2016"

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https://munchies.vice.com/articles/a-man-spent-two-years-in-prison-for-cocaine-that-was-powdered-sugar

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