Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Drug Related (Possession or sale) |
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2017 |
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Pennsylvania |
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Philadelphia |
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Philadelphia |
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Judicially Exonerated |
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"1,350 wrongful drug related convictions occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2008 to 2012 that were based on investigations by one or more of six Philadelphia police officers accused in July 2014 of corruption that included filing false police reports and testifying perjuriously to obtain convictions. There were 53 exonerations in 2013, 107 in 2014, 396 in 2015, 143 in 2016, 326 in 2017, and 325 in 2018." |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org