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Lindberg Hall

 

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1960

Year Convicted:

1961

Year Cleared:

1963

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Michigan

County or Region of Crime:

Wayne

City of Crime:

Detroit

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Lindberg Hall was codefendant of Ephraim Clark & Sceola Kuykendall. The three men were wrongly convicted of first-degree murder based on perjured testimony by a prosecution witness in exchange for having charges dropped against her for her involvement in a drug store robbery that went bad and a customer was killed. The drug store clerk also falsely identified the three innocent men. Arrested on a robbery charge, the killer confessed when confronted with ballistics evidence, and he named his accomplices, who likewise confessed when arrested. Convictions quashed after the actual murderers confessed."

Conviction Caused By:

Perjured testimony by a prosecution witness in exchange for having charges dropped against her for her involvement in a drug store robbery that went bad and a customer was killed. The drug store clerk also falsely identified the three innocent men.

Innocence Proved By:

"Actual culprit arrested for a robbery, and confessed to the drugstore murder and when confronted by ballistic evidence, and he also named his accomplices, who also confessed when arrested."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 106."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin, William Morrow & Co., p. 240-241"

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