Floyd Flood

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Charge:	Robbery (includes armed robbery)
Sentence:	10 years to life imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	1924
Year Convicted:	1924
Year Cleared:	1926
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	St. Clair
City of Crime:	Freeburg
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Floyd Flood was wrongly convicted of robbery based on eyewitness error of the two women who had been robbed by a man who had a mask pulled over his face. On January 21, 1926 Illinois Governor Len Small commuted Flood’s sentence to time served on the ground of his actual innocence, based on the confession by the actual culprits."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness error by the two women who were robbed.
Innocence Proved By:	"On January 21, 1926 Illinois Governor Len Small commuted Flood’s sentence to time served on the ground of his actual innocence, based on the confession by the actual culprits."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932, pp. 47-49"
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Floyd Flood

Charge:

Robbery (includes armed robbery)

Sentence:

10 years to life imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1924

Year Convicted:

1924

Year Cleared:

1926

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

St. Clair

City of Crime:

Freeburg

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness error by the two women who were robbed.

Innocence Proved By:

"On January 21, 1926 Illinois Governor Len Small commuted Flood’s sentence to time served on the ground of his actual innocence, based on the confession by the actual culprits."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Male

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"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932, pp. 47-49"

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