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Kazeem Adeshina Ishola

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Charge:	Identity Theft
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Year Convicted:	2005
Year Cleared:	2008
Location of Trial:	Maryland
Result:	Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in 2005 of assuming the "identity of another" after attempting to open two bank accounts using names other than his own. Kazeem Adeshina 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
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

Years Imprisoned:

Charge:

Identity Theft

Sentence:

Year Convicted:

2005

Year Cleared:

2008

Location of Trial:

Maryland

Result:

Judicially Exonerated (either after completion of sentence or while released on appeal)

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.

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Was Perpetrator Found?

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Age When Released:

39

Information Source 1:

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

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

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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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