Janine Kirby

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Charge:	Manslaughter
Sentence:	9 months
Years Imprisoned:	0.5
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Year Convicted:	1983
Year Cleared:	1994
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	U.S. Military - Federal Case
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	Janine Kirby was wrongfully convicted in 1983 of causing the death of her infant daughter while living on an Army base in Germany. She was arrested and convicted of manslaughter by a military court marshall. In 1994 the Military Court of Appeals quashed her conviction after a radio neurologist determined from scan's taken of her daughter's head at the time she was taken to the hospital in 1983 that there was no fracture of her skull. The fracture that killed her occurred either at the hospital or in an ambulance that transported her after she was taken to the hospital by Mrs. Kirby's parents.
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Innocence Proved By:	Determination of a radio neurologist that the fatal skull fracture occurred after Mrs. Kirby's baby was taken to the hospital and out of her care.
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Age When Imprisoned:	24
Age When Released:	25
Sex:	Female
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Information Source 1:	""11 Years of Hell," Victoria Combe (staff), Electronic Telegraph, December 6, 1994."
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Janine Kirby

Charge:

Manslaughter

Sentence:

9 months

Years Imprisoned:

0.5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1983

Year Cleared:

1994

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

U.S. Military - Federal Case

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Determination of a radio neurologist that the fatal skull fracture occurred after Mrs. Kirby's baby was taken to the hospital and out of her care.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

24

Age When Released:

25

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

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""11 Years of Hell," Victoria Combe (staff), Electronic Telegraph, December 6, 1994."

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http://www.portia.org/chapter01/years.html

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