Yonatan Elzam

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2003
Year Convicted:	2005
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Israel
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Posthumously - Died in prison
Summary of Case:	"Posthumously exonerated by the Israeli Supreme Court in June 2009 of a 2003 murder. Yonatan Elzam was primarily convicted based on his confession to the crime, and he was sentenced to life in prison. On December 13, 2005 23-year-old Elzam was killed by a prison guard the night before he was scheduled to testify as a witness for the prosecution in a murder trial."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession extracted by the police under intense interrogation.
Innocence Proved By:	Posthumously exonerated by the Israeli Supreme Court in June 2009
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Supreme Court posthumously overturns murder conviction amid charges of police entrapment, By Tomar Zarchin, Haaretz newspaper, June 23, 2009"
Information Location 1:	http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094890.html
Information Source 2:	"Critical blow to prisoners, Editorial, Haaretz (newspaper), June 23, 2009"
Information Location 2:	http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094911.html
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Yonatan Elzam

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2003

Year Convicted:

2005

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Israel

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Posthumously - Died in prison

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession extracted by the police under intense interrogation.

Innocence Proved By:

Posthumously exonerated by the Israeli Supreme Court in June 2009

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

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Information Source 1:

"Supreme Court posthumously overturns murder conviction amid charges of police entrapment, By Tomar Zarchin, Haaretz newspaper, June 23, 2009"

Information Location 1:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094890.html

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"Critical blow to prisoners, Editorial, Haaretz (newspaper), June 23, 2009"

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094911.html

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