Kevin Geddings

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Charge:	Mail Fraud
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Years Imprisoned:	3
Year Crime:	2005
Year Convicted:	2006
Year Cleared:	2010
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	North Carolina - Federal Case
County or Region of Crime:	Wake
City of Crime:	Raleigh
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Kevin Geddings was wrongly convicted by a jury in 2007 of five counts of violating the federal honest services law. A former North Carolina lottery commissioner, Geddings was sentenced to four years in federal prison and he began serving his sentence in July 2007. In May 2008 the federal 4th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Geddings' convictions. Gedding was released in June 29, 2010 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned part of the honest services law and federal prosecutors agreed he should be released after serving 3 years in prison -- and his scheduled release date was in December 2010. Geddings filed a motion to vacate his conviction that was granted by a federal judge on August 27, 2010 who also ordered return of the $25,000 fine he had paid.."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Gedding was released in June 29, 2010 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned part of the honest services law and federal prosecutors agreed he should be released after serving 3 years in prison"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Judge orders Geddings' release from jail, By Andy Curliss (staff), Charlotte News Observer, June 29, 2010. Geddings conviction was vacated on August 27, 2010 and the judge ordered return of the $25,000 fine he had paid."
Information Location 1:	http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/558042/judge-orders-geddings-release.html
Information Source 2:	"Former lottery chief's fraud conviction is vacated, By AP reporter, The Daily Southerner, August 30, 2010, p. 3"
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Kevin Geddings

Charge:

Mail Fraud

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

2005

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2010

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

North Carolina - Federal Case

County or Region of Crime:

Wake

City of Crime:

Raleigh

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Gedding was released in June 29, 2010 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned part of the honest services law and federal prosecutors agreed he should be released after serving 3 years in prison"

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Judge orders Geddings' release from jail, By Andy Curliss (staff), Charlotte News Observer, June 29, 2010. Geddings conviction was vacated on August 27, 2010 and the judge ordered return of the $25,000 fine he had paid."

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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/29/558042/judge-orders-geddings-release.html

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"Former lottery chief's fraud conviction is vacated, By AP reporter, The Daily Southerner, August 30, 2010, p. 3"

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