James Foster

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	2
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Year Convicted:	1956
Year Cleared:	1958
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Georgia
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"James Foster was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Lost direct appeals, but was granted two reprieves from execution date. A new trial was granted after the actual murderer confessed. At his new trial the judge entered a directed verdict of acquittal. No compensation was paid for spending 2 years on death row."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Actual culprit confessed, and James Foster was acquitted at his retrial."
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Compensation Awarded:	No
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 114."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 243-4."
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James Foster

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1956

Year Cleared:

1958

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Georgia

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Actual culprit confessed, and James Foster was acquitted at his retrial."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 114."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 243-4."

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