Alfred Dreyfus

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Charge:	Treason
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	5
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Year Convicted:	1894
Year Cleared:	1906
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	France
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason based on a forged document and imprisoned at Devil's Island in French Guyana. Emile Zola was wrongly convicted of defamation for defending Dreyfus, and self-exiled to England, Emile Zola's J'Accuse' helped inflame public passion against the injustice of Dreyfus' wrongful conviction that won a reversal of his conviction and his release from prison. Dreyfus was pardoned and released in 1899, and he was exonerated in 1906."
Conviction Caused By:	Wrongly convicted of treason based on a forged document.
Innocence Proved By:	"Dreyfus was pardoned and released in 1899, and he was exonerated in 1906."
Defendant Aided By:	"Emile Zola's writings, including J'Accuse', Zola's open letter to the French President that played a decisive role in prompting the judicial review of the 1894 trial that had, without proof, condemned Dreyfus."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'Accuse' and Other Writings," by Emile Zola, Alain Pages (Editor), Eleanor Levieux (Translator), Yale Univ. Press, March 1998, pb. 248 pages, ISBN: 0300073764"
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Book About Case:	""The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'Accuse' and Other Writings," by Emile Zola, Alain Pages (Editor), Eleanor Levieux (Translator), Yale Univ. Press, March 1998, pb. 248 pages, ISBN: 0300073764"
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Alfred Dreyfus

Charge:

Treason

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1894

Year Cleared:

1906

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

France

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Wrongly convicted of treason based on a forged document.

Innocence Proved By:

"Dreyfus was pardoned and released in 1899, and he was exonerated in 1906."

Defendant Aided By:

"Emile Zola's writings, including J'Accuse', Zola's open letter to the French President that played a decisive role in prompting the judicial review of the 1894 trial that had, without proof, condemned Dreyfus."

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

""The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'Accuse' and Other Writings," by Emile Zola, Alain Pages (Editor), Eleanor Levieux (Translator), Yale Univ. Press, March 1998, pb. 248 pages, ISBN: 0300073764"

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""The Dreyfus Affair: 'J'Accuse' and Other Writings," by Emile Zola, Alain Pages (Editor), Eleanor Levieux (Translator), Yale Univ. Press, March 1998, pb. 248 pages, ISBN: 0300073764"

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