Marvin Earl Goodsell

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Charge:	Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)
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Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Arkansas
County or Region of Crime:	Faulkner
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Marvin Earl Goodsell was wrongly convicted of four counts of sexually assaulting two step-daughters. Marvin Goodsell supposedly confessed, but at his trial he denied committing the crimes and the girls denied anything inappropriate occurred between them and Goodsell. Arkansas' law requires independent corroboration that a crime occurred apart from an out of court "confession." The judge refused to direct a verdict of acquittal after the state rested its case. On December 17, 2008 the Arkansas Court of Appeals unanimously vacated Goodsell's convictions and ordered his release on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to prove the corpus-delicti requirement that the assaults occurred."
Conviction Caused By:	The trial judge failed to enforce Arkansas' corpus-delicti rule that requires proof other than a confession that a crime occurred.
Innocence Proved By:	"On December 17, 2008 the Arkansas Court of Appeals unanimously vacated Goodsell's convictions and ordered his release on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that a crime had occurred."
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Information Source 1:	"Marvin Earl Goodsell v. State of Arkansas, 289 S.W.3d 534, 104 Ark. App. (Ark. Ct. of Appeals, 12-17-2008)"
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Information Source 2:	"Court reluctantly overturns sexual assault conviction, By John Lyon, Arkansas News Bureau, December 18, 2008"
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Marvin Earl Goodsell

Charge:

Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Arkansas

County or Region of Crime:

Faulkner

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

The trial judge failed to enforce Arkansas' corpus-delicti rule that requires proof other than a confession that a crime occurred.

Innocence Proved By:

"On December 17, 2008 the Arkansas Court of Appeals unanimously vacated Goodsell's convictions and ordered his release on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence that a crime had occurred."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Marvin Earl Goodsell v. State of Arkansas, 289 S.W.3d 534, 104 Ark. App. (Ark. Ct. of Appeals, 12-17-2008)"

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"Court reluctantly overturns sexual assault conviction, By John Lyon, Arkansas News Bureau, December 18, 2008"

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http://arkansasnews.com/?s=goodsell&x=0&y=0

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