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Everett Howell

 

Charge:

Bank Robbery (incld. Armed)

Sentence:

1 year to Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

1.33

Year Crime:

1928

Year Convicted:

1928

Year Cleared:

1930

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Adams

City of Crime:

Golden

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Everett Howell was wrongly convicted in 1928 of a bank robbery in Golden, Illinois. Howell was sentenced to one year to life in prison. Howell's conviction was overturned and he was released in 1930 based on the testimony of policeman that at the time of the robbery the policeman saw him in Canton, Illinois, 70 miles from Golden."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932, pp. 99-102"

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