Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Burglary (including aggravated) |
Sentence: |
2 months |
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Year Crime: |
2005 |
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Year Cleared: |
2009 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Washington |
County or Region of Crime: |
King |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Roger Dean Engel was wrongly convicted of felony burglary in the second degree for allegedly stealing aluminum auto wheels. Engel was sentenced to two months incarceration. On July 9, 2009 the Washington Supreme Court unanimously overturned Engel's conviction based on insufficiency of the evidence and remanded it to the trial court for dismissal." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"On July 9, 2009 the Washington Supreme Court unanimously overturned Engel's conviction based on insufficiency of the evidence and remanded it to the trial court for dismissal." |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"State v. Engel, No. 81072-9 (WA Ct of Appeal, 07-09-2009)" |
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http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/index.cfm?fa=opinions.showOpinion&filename=810729MAJ |
Information Source 2: |
"Wash. court: Partial fence not enough for burglary, By Curt Woodward (AP writer), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 9, 2009" |
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http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_scow_no_fence_burglar.html?source=mypi |
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