Scott Fappiano

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Charge:	"Rape, Sodomy and Burglary"
Sentence:	20 to 50 years
Years Imprisoned:	21
Year Crime:	1983
Year Convicted:	1985
Year Cleared:	2006
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Kings
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Scott Fappiano was wrongly convicted in 1985 of a 1983 rape of a New York policeman's wife in Brooklyn. His first trial in 1984 ended in a hung jury that voted 11 to 1 for acquittal. He was convicted the next year. DNA testing of the rapist's semen that was unavailable at the time of Fappiano's trial excluded him. The NY Medical Examiner confirmed on October 5, 2006, that Fappiano was excluded as the source of the semen, and he was released the next day, on October 6, 2006, by order of a Brooklyn judge. Scott Fappiano was wrongly imprisoned for 21 years."
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Innocence Proved By:	DNA testing of the rapists semen that was unavailable at the time of Fappiano's trial excluded him.
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project at Cardoza School of Law
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	44
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"After 21 years, dna testing sets man free in rape case, by Nicholas Confessore (staff), New York Times, October 7, 2006"
Information Location 1:	http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/nyregion/07rape.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Information Source 2:	"Dna sets him free at last, By Austin Fenner, Nancie L. Katz and Patrice O'Shaughnessy (staff), New York Daily News, October 7, 2006"
Information Location 2:	http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/459372p-386492c.html
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Scott Fappiano

Charge:

"Rape, Sodomy and Burglary"

Sentence:

20 to 50 years

Years Imprisoned:

21

Year Crime:

1983

Year Convicted:

1985

Year Cleared:

2006

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Kings

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

DNA testing of the rapists semen that was unavailable at the time of Fappiano's trial excluded him.

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project at Cardoza School of Law

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

44

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"After 21 years, dna testing sets man free in rape case, by Nicholas Confessore (staff), New York Times, October 7, 2006"

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/nyregion/07rape.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Information Source 2:

"Dna sets him free at last, By Austin Fenner, Nancie L. Katz and Patrice O'Shaughnessy (staff), New York Daily News, October 7, 2006"

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http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/459372p-386492c.html

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