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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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1.2 |
Charge: |
Leaving Fatal Accident Scene |
Sentence: |
5 years |
Year Convicted: |
2007 |
Year
Cleared:
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2008 |
Location
of Trial:
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Florida |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted in 2007 for leaving the scene of an accident, when after hitting a man he drove to a store to call 911 for help. During his trial the prosecution claimed that neither the tape of his emergency call for help nor a witness at the store could be located. The judge declared a mistrial. Ronald Joseph was retried, again without the prosecution producing the evidence he had called for help, and he was convicted. Joseph was sentenced to five years in prison. On July 30, 2008 Florida's First District Court of Appeals overturned Joseph's conviction and ordered his release because the judge shouldn't have declared a mistrial in the first trial, and because jeopardy had attached, it had violated his right against double jeopardy for him to have been tried twice. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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The prosecution claimed that neither the tape of his emergency call for help nor a witness at the store could be located. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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On July 30, 2008 Florida's First District Court of Appeals overturned Joseph's conviction and ordered his release.
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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35 |
Age
When Released:
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37 |
Information Source 1: |
Ronald Joseph v Florida, 07-3477 (1st DCA 07-30-2008) |
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Court reverses hit-and-run conviction, By David Angier, News Herald (Panama City, FL), July 31, 2008 |
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White |
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