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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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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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Yes |
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Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
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"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932, pp. 99-102" |
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