Kazeem Adeshina Ishola

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Charge:	Identity Theft
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Years Imprisoned:
Year Crime:	2003
Year Convicted:	2005
Year Cleared:	2008
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Maryland
County or Region of Crime:	Howard
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Kazeem Adeshina Ishola was wrongly convicted in 2005 of assuming the "identity of another" after attempting to open two bank accounts using names other than his own. Ishola appealed on the basis that he used fictitous names, not those of real persons. Ishola's conviction was upheld in 2007 by the state Court of Special Appeals. However, the Maryland Court of Appeals overturned his conviction on April 10, 2008, ruling that the law only applied to assuming the identify of an actual person, not a fictitous person."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous interpretation of the law by the trial judge that falsely allowed Ishola to be prosecuted for assuming the identify of a fictitous person.
Innocence Proved By:	"The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned Ishola's conviction on April 10, 2008, ruling that the law only applied to assuming the identify of an actual person, not a fictitous person."
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Age When Released:	39
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Kazeem Adeshina Ishola v. State of Maryland, No. 66, September Term, 2007"
Information Location 1:	http://mdcourts.gov/opinions/coa/2008/66a07.pdf
Information Source 2:	"Identity theft conviction overturned, By Gus G. Sentementes (staff writer), Baltimore Sun, April 11, 2008"
Information Location 2:	"www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.identity11apr11,0,2159359.story"
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Kazeem Adeshina Ishola

Charge:

Identity Theft

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2003

Year Convicted:

2005

Year Cleared:

2008

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Maryland

County or Region of Crime:

Howard

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous interpretation of the law by the trial judge that falsely allowed Ishola to be prosecuted for assuming the identify of a fictitous person.

Innocence Proved By:

"The Maryland Court of Appeals overturned Ishola's conviction on April 10, 2008, ruling that the law only applied to assuming the identify of an actual person, not a fictitous person."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

39

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Kazeem Adeshina Ishola v. State of Maryland, No. 66, September Term, 2007"

Information Location 1:

http://mdcourts.gov/opinions/coa/2008/66a07.pdf

Information Source 2:

"Identity theft conviction overturned, By Gus G. Sentementes (staff writer), Baltimore Sun, April 11, 2008"

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"www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.identity11apr11,0,2159359.story"

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