Fred Kormatsu

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Charge:	Internment (disobeying order to report)
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Years Imprisoned:	3
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Year Convicted:	1942
Year Cleared:	1983
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California - Federal Case
County or Region of Crime:	Alameda
City of Crime:	Oakland
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Fred Korematsu was a shipyard welder from Oakland who refused to obey the US government internment order. He was arrested, convicted of a felony and interned in Utah. He reopened the case in 1983 and a federal court in San Francisco overturned the conviction, stating that the government's case at the time had been based on false, misleading, and at racially biased information. (SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W27). Defendant in famous Korematsu v. U.S. case in which the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the Executive Order authorizing the forced internment of Japanese on the West Coast in the interests of National Security. In 2011 Solicitor General of the U.S. Neal Kayyal admitted that in 1944 then SG Charles Fay suppressed in the government's Korematsu brief that claims of sabotage by Japanese-Americans were false and official findings that Japanese-Americans represented a small security threat."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Asian
Information Source 1:	"Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story, 60 min., written, directed and produced by Eric Paul Fournier; co-producers Dorka Keehn and Shirley Nakao; executive producers Eric Paul Fournier and Ken Korematsu; cinematography by Peter McCandless; edited by Jean Kawahura and Eric Paul Fournier; original musical score by Bond Bergland and Michael Becker."
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Information Source 2:	"Solicitor General Acknowledges Malfeasance in Handling of Japanese Internment, American History magazine, October 2011, p. 6"
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Movie About Case:	"Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story, 60 min., written, directed and produced by Eric Paul Fournier; co-producers Dorka Keehn and Shirley Nakao; executive producers Eric Paul Fournier and Ken Korematsu; cinematography by Peter McCandless; edited by Jean Kawahura and Eric Paul Fournier; original musical score by Bond Bergland and Michael Becker."
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Fred Kormatsu

Charge:

Internment (disobeying order to report)

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1942

Year Cleared:

1983

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California - Federal Case

County or Region of Crime:

Alameda

City of Crime:

Oakland

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

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Male

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Asian

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