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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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4 |
Charge: |
First Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1978 |
Year
Cleared:
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1982 |
Location
of Trial:
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California |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted of murder based on erroneous eyewitness identification of two of the victim's brothers. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Eyewitness error and ineffective assistance of counsel. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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The two brothers recanted their testimony in writing and identified another man, Oscar Sanchez as the actual killer. Another witness also identified O. Sanchez and another man as the murderers. The CA Sup Ct reversed Hall's conviction because the new evidence exonerated him and implicated the actual killers.
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Information Source 1: |
“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 122. |
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In Spite of Innocence |
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Dredmundhiggins database |
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http://www.dredmundhiggins.com/ |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Hispanic |
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