Charles Irvin Fain

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Charge:	"Murder, Rape and Kidnapping"
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	18.42
Year Crime:	1982
Year Convicted:	1984
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Idaho
County or Region of Crime:	Canyon
City of Crime:	Nampa
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Charles Fain was on death row in Idaho for 18 years before being exonerated by DNA evidence. Fain was wrongly convicted in 1983 of raping and murdering a 9-year-old girl based on the testimony by a "jailhouse" snitch who claimed Fain confessed, and the testimony of an FBI lab technician that based on microscopic analysis, three hairs found on the victim likely came from Fain. The jury rejected Fain's alibi defense that at the time of the crime was committed in Nampa, Idaho, he was living with his parents more than 300 miles away in Redmond, Oregon. Fain was sentenced to death and his conviction was upheld on appeal. In 2001 DNA analysis of the three hairs determined Fain wasn't the source and he was released after 18 years on death row."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjurious testimony by jailhouse informant and erroneous microscopic examination of three hairs by an FBI lab technician.
Innocence Proved By:	DNA analysis unavailable at the time of Fain's trial excluded him as the source of three hairs found on the victim.
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project NY
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	35
Age When Released:	53
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""Former Idaho death row Inmate ordered released from prison amid DNA evidence questions," AP, Boise, ID, Aug. 24, 2001."
Information Location 1:	http://www.courttv.com/news/death_penalty/082401_dna_ap.html
Information Source 2:	"DNA Evidence Frees Death Row Inmate, AP, August 23, 2001."
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Charles Irvin Fain

Charge:

"Murder, Rape and Kidnapping"

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

18.42

Year Crime:

1982

Year Convicted:

1984

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Idaho

County or Region of Crime:

Canyon

City of Crime:

Nampa

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjurious testimony by jailhouse informant and erroneous microscopic examination of three hairs by an FBI lab technician.

Innocence Proved By:

DNA analysis unavailable at the time of Fain's trial excluded him as the source of three hairs found on the victim.

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project NY

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

35

Age When Released:

53

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

""Former Idaho death row Inmate ordered released from prison amid DNA evidence questions," AP, Boise, ID, Aug. 24, 2001."

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http://www.courttv.com/news/death_penalty/082401_dna_ap.html

Information Source 2:

"DNA Evidence Frees Death Row Inmate, AP, August 23, 2001."

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http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/news1/an010823-11.html

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