Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
First Degree Murder and Robbery |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole |
Years Imprisoned: |
21 |
Year Crime: |
1995 |
Year Convicted: |
1998 |
Year Cleared: |
2017 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Illinois |
County or Region of Crime: |
Cook |
City of Crime: |
Chicago |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Charles Johnson, Larod Styles, LaShawn Ezell and Troshawn McCoy were codefendants wrongly convicted in 1998 of murder related to a double murder in Chicago, Illinois in 1995." |
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Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
Black |
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"Cook County prosecutors drop cases against 4 men in 1995 double murder, By Steve Schmadeke (Staff reporter), Chicago Tribune, February 15, 2017" |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-convictions-vacated-cook-county-20170215-story.html |
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