Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation) |
Sentence: |
35-2/3 to 107 years |
Years Imprisoned: |
10 |
Year Crime: |
1991 |
Year Convicted: |
1993 |
Year Cleared: |
2007 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
New York |
County or Region of Crime: |
Erie |
City of Crime: |
Buffalo |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Louis Eze, Joy Wosu, and Dominic Okongwu were codefendants wrongly convicted in 1993 in Buffalo, New York of child sex abuse allegedly committed in 1991. " |
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Innocence Proved By: |
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Compensation Awarded: |
Denied by State of New York. |
Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
32 |
Age When Released: |
42 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
Black |
Information Source 1: |
"Joy Wosu, By Joy Wosu and Barbara Lynn Lapp, Justice Denied magazine, Issue 3, April 1999" |
Information Location 1: |
http://justicedenied.org/v1issue3.htm#Joy%20Wo%20Su |
Information Source 2: |
"Defendant cleared in 1991 sex assault case, By Matt Gryta (staff), The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY), November 27, 2007" |
Information Location 2: |
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1202707.html |
Information Source 3: |
"Louis Eze V. Daniel A. Senkowski, No. 99-2261 (2nd Cir. 2-12-2003) (Remanding for habeas petition evidentiary hearing.)" |
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http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1202707.html |
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