Alan Gell

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	9
Year Crime:	1995
Year Convicted:	1998
Year Cleared:	2004
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	North Carolina
County or Region of Crime:	Bertie
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Alan Gell was wongly convicted of a 1995 murder and sentenced to death because the prosecution concealed witness statements of 17 people who saw the victim alive days after the only day Alan Gell could have committed the murder. A Bertie County, NC Superior Court Judge vacated Alan Gell's conviction in December 2002, and ordered a retrial, and he was released from death row after spending 4-1/2 years under sentence of death. Gell was acquitted after a retrial on Feb. 18, 2004. Gell spent 9 years wrongly imprisoned, since he spent 3 years jailed prior to his 1998 trial."
Conviction Caused By:	Prosecutorial misconduct of concealing time of the victims's death and 17 exculpatory witnesses from the defense
Innocence Proved By:	"Superior Court Judge vacated conviction in 2002 and ordered a retrial after discovery the prosecution lied about the time of death to falsely implicate Gell. Gell was acquitted after a retrial on Feb 18, 2004."
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Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	28
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Gell Found Not Guilty, Staff, Raleigh News & Observer, Feb 18, 2004, p. 1"
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Information Source 2:	"Harmful Error - Investigating America's Local Prosecutors, The Center For Public Integrity, June 2003."
Information Location 2:	http://www.publicintegrity.org/pm/states.aspx?st=NC
Information Source 3:	12/12/02 Ral. News & Obs.
Information Location 3:	12/12/02 Raleigh News & Observer
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Alan Gell

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

9

Year Crime:

1995

Year Convicted:

1998

Year Cleared:

2004

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

North Carolina

County or Region of Crime:

Bertie

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Prosecutorial misconduct of concealing time of the victims's death and 17 exculpatory witnesses from the defense

Innocence Proved By:

"Superior Court Judge vacated conviction in 2002 and ordered a retrial after discovery the prosecution lied about the time of death to falsely implicate Gell. Gell was acquitted after a retrial on Feb 18, 2004."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

28

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Gell Found Not Guilty, Staff, Raleigh News & Observer, Feb 18, 2004, p. 1"

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Information Source 2:

"Harmful Error - Investigating America's Local Prosecutors, The Center For Public Integrity, June 2003."

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http://www.publicintegrity.org/pm/states.aspx?st=NC

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12/12/02 Ral. News & Obs.

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12/12/02 Raleigh News & Observer

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