John Henry Knapp

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	16
Year Crime:
Year Convicted:	1976
Year Cleared:	1992
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Arizona
County or Region of Crime:	Maricopa
City of Crime:	East Mesa
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"John Henry Knapp was wrongly convicted in 1976 of first-degree murder in the burning his two daughters to death in East Mesa, Arizaona on November 16, 1973. After his conviction John Knapp was sentenced to death. Knapp's conviction was overturned in 1992 and he was released. Knapp's conviction was based resulted from faulty scientific testimony and testing, erroneous eyewitness testimony and prosecutorial misconduct of destroying exculpatory evidence."
Conviction Caused By:	"Faulty scientific testimony and testing, erroneous eyewitness testimony and prosecutorial misconduct of destroying exculpatory evidence."
Innocence Proved By:	Conviction overturned
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Compensation Awarded:
Was Perpetrator Identified?
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Death Penalty Information Center
Information Location 1:	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html
Information Source 2:	Patrick Crusade website & database
Information Location 2:	http://www.patrickcrusade.org/wrongful.htm
Information Source 3:	""Lawyers seek panel to investigate when innocents sent to prison," Carol Sowers, The Arizona Republic, 11-12-2001."
Information Location 3:	"From Death Row to Halfway House, Phoenix Gazette, Jan 24, 1995, B1"
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Book About Case:	"Triple Jeopardy by Roger Parloff, 1996"
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John Henry Knapp

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1976

Year Cleared:

1992

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Arizona

County or Region of Crime:

Maricopa

City of Crime:

East Mesa

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Faulty scientific testimony and testing, erroneous eyewitness testimony and prosecutorial misconduct of destroying exculpatory evidence."

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction overturned

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Death Penalty Information Center

Information Location 1:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html

Information Source 2:

Patrick Crusade website & database

Information Location 2:

http://www.patrickcrusade.org/wrongful.htm

Information Source 3:

""Lawyers seek panel to investigate when innocents sent to prison," Carol Sowers, The Arizona Republic, 11-12-2001."

Information Location 3:

"From Death Row to Halfway House, Phoenix Gazette, Jan 24, 1995, B1"

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Book About Case:

"Triple Jeopardy by Roger Parloff, 1996"

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