Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Second Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Youth Indet. Sentence |
Years Imprisoned: |
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Year Convicted: |
1990 |
Year Cleared: |
1991 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Massachusetts |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
"Christina Hill was wrongly convicted after a judge only trial of the second degree murder of a 2 year old by poisoning. After she obtained evidence that conviction was based on perjured testimony, she was acquitted after a jury trial." |
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Sex: |
Female |
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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, 314 ( © 1992)." |
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"Wrongful Murder Convictions in Massachusetts, March 22, 2006" |
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http://www.nodp.org/ma/mass_mistake.html |
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