Lonnie Jenkins

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	9
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Year Convicted:	1931
Year Cleared:	1940
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Michigan
County or Region of Crime:	Wayne
City of Crime:	Detroit
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Lonnie Jenkins was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder in December 1931 by a jury in Detroit, Michigan. Sentenced to life. Conviction set aside and indictment dismissed in Dec 1949 after it was established no crime had been committed. No compensation was awarded for 9 years of wrongful imprisonment."
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Innocence Proved By:	Conviction set aside and indictment dismissed after it was established no crime had been committed..
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 130."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 252-253."
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Lonnie Jenkins

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

9

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1931

Year Cleared:

1940

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Michigan

County or Region of Crime:

Wayne

City of Crime:

Detroit

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction set aside and indictment dismissed after it was established no crime had been committed..

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 130."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 252-253."

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