Elton Houston

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	35 years
Years Imprisoned:	5.5
Year Crime:	1983
Year Convicted:	1984
Year Cleared:	1989
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Cook
City of Crime:	Chicago
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Elton Houston was codefendant of Robert Brown. Victims of eyewitness error and prosecutorial misconduct of withholding evidence. Houston and Brown filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the prosecutors who withheld evidence and several Chicago Police Department officers. Eventually the City of Chicago agreed to settle their lawsuits for $1,100,000 each in 1993. The State of Illinois paid Houston $120,300 in wrongful imprisonment compensation."
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Compensation Awarded:	"$1,220,300 total. $1.1 million (City of Chicago, 1993) $120,300 (State of Illinois)"
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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, 291 ( © 1992)."
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Information Source 2:	"Elton Houston and Robert Brown v. Cecil A. Partee, Cook County State's Attorney, Thomas Dwyerand Larry Wharrie, 978 F.2d 362 (7th Cir. 1992)"
Information Location 2:	http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/978/362/183195/
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Elton Houston

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

35 years

Years Imprisoned:

5.5

Year Crime:

1983

Year Convicted:

1984

Year Cleared:

1989

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Chicago

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$1,220,300 total. $1.1 million (City of Chicago, 1993) $120,300 (State of Illinois)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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, 291 ( © 1992)."

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"Elton Houston and Robert Brown v. Cecil A. Partee, Cook County State's Attorney, Thomas Dwyerand Larry Wharrie, 978 F.2d 362 (7th Cir. 1992)"

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http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/978/362/183195/

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