Troy Jon Hancock

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Charge:	Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)
Sentence:	5 years to life in prison
Years Imprisoned:	3.42
Year Crime:	1991
Year Convicted:	1993
Year Cleared:	1996
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Utah
County or Region of Crime:	Juab
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Troy Jon Hancock was a co-defendant of Jed Allen Gressman. Both men were wrongly convicted in 1993 of raping a 20-year-old woman on the Labor Day weekend in 1991 in Juab, Utah, based on the identification of the victim. Friends of the two men raised money to pay for a reinvestigation that discovered the young woman had falsely accused a man of rape two years earlier in Provo, Utah, and that members of her family had been seen looking at Hancock's truck before she changed her description of the vehicle her alleged assailant's were driving. In addition DNA testing of the semen sample recovered from the woman excluded the DNA profile of both Troy Hancock and Jed Gressman. Based on the new evidence the men were granted a new trial and the Juab County DA's motion to dismiss the charges was granted. After serving 41 months of their sentences Troy Hancock and Gressman were released on June 12, 1996. Gressman died in a fire at the age of 41, and his estate was posthumously awarded $220,000 in compensation in 2011. Hancock was also awarded compensation. They were the first persons awarded compensation under Utah's wrongful conviction compensation statute that went into effect in 2008."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness testimony of the rape victim..
Innocence Proved By:	DNA tests of crime scene evidence excluded Hancock and Greesman as the woman's assailant.
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Compensation Awarded:	"$220,000 (State of Utah, 2011)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	26
Age When Released:	29
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Time, guilt, money, Salt Lake City Weekly, Ted McDonough, January 19, 2006"
Information Location 1:	http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2006/cityweek_1_2006-01-19.cfm
Information Source 2:	"Utah fights payout for man wrongly convicted of sexual assault, By Lindsay Whitehurst (staff), The Salt Lake Tribune, November 12, 2012"
Information Location 2:	http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55221967-78/gressman-restitution-utah-court.html.csp
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Troy Jon Hancock

Charge:

Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)

Sentence:

5 years to life in prison

Years Imprisoned:

3.42

Year Crime:

1991

Year Convicted:

1993

Year Cleared:

1996

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Utah

County or Region of Crime:

Juab

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness testimony of the rape victim..

Innocence Proved By:

DNA tests of crime scene evidence excluded Hancock and Greesman as the woman's assailant.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$220,000 (State of Utah, 2011)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

26

Age When Released:

29

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Time, guilt, money, Salt Lake City Weekly, Ted McDonough, January 19, 2006"

Information Location 1:

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2006/cityweek_1_2006-01-19.cfm

Information Source 2:

"Utah fights payout for man wrongly convicted of sexual assault, By Lindsay Whitehurst (staff), The Salt Lake Tribune, November 12, 2012"

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http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55221967-78/gressman-restitution-utah-court.html.csp

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