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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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2.5 |
Charge: |
Sexual Assault and Kidnapping |
Sentence: |
25 years |
Year Convicted: |
1990 |
Year
Cleared:
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1992 |
Location
of Trial:
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Connecticut |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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He was convicted 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. Hammond was acquitted after a retrial when additional DNA tests excluded him. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Eyewitness error, erroneous hair analysis by a police lab technician and police/prosecutorial misconduct of feeding the eyewitness information about Hammond. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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DNA
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Information Source 1: |
Innocence Project database |
Information
Location 1:
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http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=15 |
Information
Source 2:
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Hartford Courant, October 20, 1992 |
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Information
Source 3:
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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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Dredmundhiggins database |
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Location 4:
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http://www.dredmundhiggins.com/ |
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