Ricky Hammond

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Charge:	Sexual Assault and Kidnapping
Sentence:	25 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	1987
Year Convicted:	1990
Year Cleared:	1992
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Connecticut
County or Region of Crime:	Hartford
City of Crime:	Hartford
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Ricky Hammond was convicted sexual assault and kidnapping by a jury although DNA tests prior to his trial excluded him as the rapist, because an eyewitness he had never met erroneously identified him as the attacker, and based on info the police had provided her with she accurately described his car and its contents. A police lab analyst also wrongly inferred that hair samples of the attacker matched Hammond. On February 25, 1992 the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated Hammond's conviction in ruling the trial judge erred in denying Hammond's post-verdict motion for a new trial. Hammond was acquitted in 1992 after a retrial when the jury heard testimony about additional DNA tests that excluded him."
Conviction Caused By:	"Eyewitness error, erroneous hair analysis by a police lab technician and police/prosecutorial misconduct of feeding the eyewitness information about Hammond."
Innocence Proved By:	Hammond was acquitted after a retrial in 1992.
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"State v. Hammond, 221 Conn. 264, 604 A. 2d 793 (Conn. Supreme Court 1992)"
Information Location 1:	"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3553592882405156700&q=ricky+hammond+connecticut&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"
Information Source 2:	"Ricky Hammond, New England 'Innocence Project"
Information Location 2:	http://www.newenglandinnocence.org/exonerees/ricky-hammond/
Information Source 3:	"Hartford Courant, October 20, 1992"
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Information Source 4:	"Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence after Trial, by Edward Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller and Tom McEwen (US DOJ, National Institute of Justice, June 1996)"
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Ricky Hammond

Charge:

Sexual Assault and Kidnapping

Sentence:

25 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1987

Year Convicted:

1990

Year Cleared:

1992

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Connecticut

County or Region of Crime:

Hartford

City of Crime:

Hartford

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Eyewitness error, erroneous hair analysis by a police lab technician and police/prosecutorial misconduct of feeding the eyewitness information about Hammond."

Innocence Proved By:

Hammond was acquitted after a retrial in 1992.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"State v. Hammond, 221 Conn. 264, 604 A. 2d 793 (Conn. Supreme Court 1992)"

Information Location 1:

"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3553592882405156700&q=ricky+hammond+connecticut&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"

Information Source 2:

"Ricky Hammond, New England 'Innocence Project"

Information Location 2:

http://www.newenglandinnocence.org/exonerees/ricky-hammond/

Information Source 3:

"Hartford Courant, October 20, 1992"

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Information Source 4:

"Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence after Trial, by Edward Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller and Tom McEwen (US DOJ, National Institute of Justice, June 1996)"

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