Louis Klass

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Charge:	Robbery (includes armed robbery)
Sentence:	30 years
Years Imprisoned:	3
Year Crime:	1928
Year Convicted:	1928
Year Cleared:	1931
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Minnesota
County or Region of Crime:	Fillmore
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Louis Klass was wrongly convicted of robbing the First National Bank of Spring Valley in Fillmore County, Minnesota on May 7, 1928. Both the president and vice-president of the bank identified Louis Klass as one of the robbers after viewing police photos. Several years after Klass' conviction a man confessed to the crime and her conviction was overturned and she was released in 1931 after 3 years of wrongful imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness misidentification by two officers of the bank that was robbed.
Innocence Proved By:	Several years after Klass' conviction a man confessed to the crime and her conviction was overturned and she was released in 1931 after 3 years of wrongful imprisonment.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932"
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Louis Klass

Charge:

Robbery (includes armed robbery)

Sentence:

30 years

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

1928

Year Convicted:

1928

Year Cleared:

1931

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Minnesota

County or Region of Crime:

Fillmore

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness misidentification by two officers of the bank that was robbed.

Innocence Proved By:

Several years after Klass' conviction a man confessed to the crime and her conviction was overturned and she was released in 1931 after 3 years of wrongful imprisonment.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932"

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