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Frank Harris

 

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

21

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1926

Year Cleared:

1947

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pennsylvania

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Frank Harris was wrongly convicted in 1947 of first-degree-murder in Pennsylvania. Harris was sentenced to life in prison.

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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. 124."

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