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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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1.2 |
Charge: |
First Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1946 |
Year
Cleared:
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1947 |
Location
of Trial:
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California |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted in March 1947 of first-degree murder in California by a jury. He falsely confessed to murder when he had actually been in Mexico at the time the crime was committed. His whereabouts were verified by Mexican authorities. Conviction set aside and indictment dismissed in May 1947. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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Falsely confessed to murder, when he had actually been in Mexico at the time it was committed in California. His whereabouts were verified by Mexican authorities. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Falsely confessed to murder, when he had actually been in Mexico at the time it was committed. His whereabouts were verified by Mexican authorities.
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Defendant
Aided By:
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Mexican authorities verified his whereabouts at the time of the murder he was wrongly convicted of. |
Compensation Awarded: |
No |
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Information Source 1: |
“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 133. |
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The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 251. |
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Ethnicity/Skin:
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Hispanic |
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