Heidi Fleiss

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Charge:	Pandering
Sentence:	3 years
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Year Convicted:	1994
Year Cleared:	1996
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Los Angeles
City of Crime:	Los Angeles
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Heidi Fleiss was wrongly convicted in 1994 of pandering after jurors swapped guilty verdicts on a pandering charge for dropping a drug charge. She was sentenced to three years imprisonment. On May 28, 1996, California's Second District Court of Appeal vacated Heidi Fleiss' pandering conviction and sentence, ruling the juror vote swapping to reach a guilty verdict was a due process violation."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On May 28, 1996, California's Second District Court of Appeal vacated Fleiss' pandering conviction and sentence, ruling the juror vote swapping to reach a guilty verdict was a due process violation."
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Conviction Quashed In Heidi Fleiss Case, New York Times, May 30, 1996"
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Information Source 2:	"A High Price to Pay, By Jill Smolowe, Time Magazine, December 19, 1994"
Information Location 2:	"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982002-1,00.html"
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Heidi Fleiss

Charge:

Pandering

Sentence:

3 years

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1994

Year Cleared:

1996

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Los Angeles

City of Crime:

Los Angeles

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On May 28, 1996, California's Second District Court of Appeal vacated Fleiss' pandering conviction and sentence, ruling the juror vote swapping to reach a guilty verdict was a due process violation."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Conviction Quashed In Heidi Fleiss Case, New York Times, May 30, 1996"

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Information Source 2:

"A High Price to Pay, By Jill Smolowe, Time Magazine, December 19, 1994"

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"http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,982002-1,00.html"

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