Michael Glasper

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Charge:	Robbery (includes armed robbery)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	2006
Year Convicted:	2006
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Cook
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in Chicago of the robbery of a parking lot attendent in September 2006. One of the items stolen was the attendent's cell phone. Glasper and his girlfriend found a cell phone near Chicago's Columbia College where his girlfriend worked. She scrolled through the numbers stored in the telephone. She identified the owner, called her, and returned the telephone to her. The robbery victim called the police to report the returned phone. In her statement to the police the victim described the robber as a person 7 inches shorter than Glasper. However, because of Glasper's record they considered him as a suspect. The victim subsequently picked him out of a lineup as the robber. Michael Glasper was convicted based on the victim's in-court identification, and he was sentenced to life in prison as a habitual offender, because of two robbery convictions in the 1990s. Glasper's conviction was overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted after a retrial in July 2008. Glasper was wrongly imprisoned for two years. On December 12, 2008 Glasper filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Chicago, and four Chicago PD officers."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous identification by the victim.
Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted after a retrial in July 2008.
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Age When Imprisoned:	37
Age When Released:	39
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Riverdale man sues Chicago over wrongful conviction after 2 years in prison, By Steve Schmadeke (staff reporter), Chicago Tribune, December 18, 2008"
Information Location 1:	"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-wrongfully_convicted_lawsuitdec18,0,3107145,print.story"
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Michael Glasper

Charge:

Robbery (includes armed robbery)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

2006

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous identification by the victim.

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted after a retrial in July 2008.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

37

Age When Released:

39

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Riverdale man sues Chicago over wrongful conviction after 2 years in prison, By Steve Schmadeke (staff reporter), Chicago Tribune, December 18, 2008"

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"http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-wrongfully_convicted_lawsuitdec18,0,3107145,print.story"

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