Joseph Huett

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	5 years
Years Imprisoned:	0.625
Year Crime:	1935
Year Convicted:	1935
Year Cleared:	1936
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Missouri
County or Region of Crime:	Reynolds
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Joseph Huett was wrongly convicted of manslaughter in the death of an acquaintance in August 1935 in Reynolds County, Missouri. A witness, Lee Bowles, testified at Huett's trial that Huett fired without provocation. After the jury convicted Huett he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment. Seven months later Bowles went to the police and confessed he committed perjury during Huett's trial because Huett had in fact shot the victim in self-defense. Based on the new evidence no crime had been committed, the charge against Huett was dismissed and he was released from prison."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjury by the prosecution's key eyewitness.
Innocence Proved By:	"Based on the new evidence no crime had been committed, the charge against Huett was dismissed and he was released from prison."
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Information Source 1:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 193"
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Joseph Huett

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

5 years

Years Imprisoned:

0.625

Year Crime:

1935

Year Convicted:

1935

Year Cleared:

1936

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Missouri

County or Region of Crime:

Reynolds

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjury by the prosecution's key eyewitness.

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on the new evidence no crime had been committed, the charge against Huett was dismissed and he was released from prison."

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Male

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 193"

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