L. D. Harris

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	10
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Year Convicted:	1947
Year Cleared:	1957
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	South Carolina
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"L. D. Harris was wrongly convicted in 1947 of first-degree murder in South Carolina. His conviction was based on his confession after 2 days of non-stop questioning by five different police officers, that he later recanted as coerced. After his conviction by a jury Harris was sentenced to death. Harris' conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Harris v. South Carolina, 338 U.S. 68 (1949)."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession
Innocence Proved By:	"Sup Ct reversed his conviction, and in 1957 a man originally suspected in the murder was arrested for suspicion of committing a similar murder, and the man confessed to the murder Harris had spent 10 years wrongly imprisoned for committing."
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 312 ( © 1992)."
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L. D. Harris

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1947

Year Cleared:

1957

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

South Carolina

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession

Innocence Proved By:

"Sup Ct reversed his conviction, and in 1957 a man originally suspected in the murder was arrested for suspicion of committing a similar murder, and the man confessed to the murder Harris had spent 10 years wrongly imprisoned for committing."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 312 ( © 1992)."

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