John Geoghan

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Charge:	Indecency with a Child
Sentence:	9 to 10 years
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1991
Year Convicted:	2002
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Massachusetts
County or Region of Crime:	Middlesex
City of Crime:	Cambridge
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Posthumously
Summary of Case:	"John Geoghan's 2002 convictions of indecent assault and battery of a child in 1991 when he was a Catholic priest in Cambridge Massachusetts were vacated and his indictment was dismissed by order of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals on September 17, 2003, after Geoghan was strangled to death in prison on August 23, 2003 while his direct appeal was pending. Geoghan was convicted by a jury based on the testimony of his alleged victim that in 1991 he grabbed the then 10-year-old boy's buttocks, which Geoghan denied. Geoghan was sentenced to 9 to 10 years in prison. Joseph L. Druce was convicted of Geoghan's murder and his conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on April 27, 2009."
Conviction Caused By:	Testimony of the alleged victim.
Innocence Proved By:	"John Geoghan's 2002 convictions were vacated and his indictment was dismissed by order of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals on September 17, 2003, after Geoghan was strangled to death in prison on August 23, 2003 while his direct appeal was pending."
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Age When Imprisoned:	67
Age When Released:	68
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Ex-Priest's Conviction Vacated, By Theo Emery (AP Reporter), Altoona Mirror, September 28, 2003, B2"
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Information Source 2:	"Commonwealth v. Druce, 453 Mass. 686 (Mass. Supreme Judicial Court 2009)"
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Information Source 3:	"John Geoghan, Wikipedia.org"
Information Location 3:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Geoghan
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John Geoghan

Charge:

Indecency with a Child

Sentence:

9 to 10 years

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1991

Year Convicted:

2002

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

Middlesex

City of Crime:

Cambridge

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Posthumously

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Testimony of the alleged victim.

Innocence Proved By:

"John Geoghan's 2002 convictions were vacated and his indictment was dismissed by order of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals on September 17, 2003, after Geoghan was strangled to death in prison on August 23, 2003 while his direct appeal was pending."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

67

Age When Released:

68

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Ex-Priest's Conviction Vacated, By Theo Emery (AP Reporter), Altoona Mirror, September 28, 2003, B2"

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Information Source 2:

"Commonwealth v. Druce, 453 Mass. 686 (Mass. Supreme Judicial Court 2009)"

Information Location 2:

"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3864072584247806406&q=John+Geoghan&hl=en&as_sdt=4,22"

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"John Geoghan, Wikipedia.org"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Geoghan

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