Oscar Krueger

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Charge:	Obsenity Related Charge
Sentence:	18 months
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1910
Year Convicted:	1911
Year Cleared:	1912
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York - Federal Case
County or Region of Crime:	New York
City of Crime:	New York City
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Oscar Krueger was wrongly convicted of mailing a "lewd, lascivious, obscene letter" to a woman in New York. On February 2, 1911 Krueger was convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence and a handwriting expert who testified that Krueger's handwriting matched that of the letter writer. Oscar Krueger was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. Krueger protested his innocence and wrote many letters while imprisoned. He was advised to submit a pardon application to the president. Krueger's third application was forwarded to the U.S. Attorney in New York, who took an interest in the case and had Krueger's handwriting expertly comparted with that of the letter's writer. When the analysis was negative, the case was reinvestigated. On the investigation's conclusion that Krueger did not write the letter, the U.S. Attorney recommended that Krueger be pardoned. On January 18, 1912 Krueger was granted a full pardon by President William Taft. Krueger was wrongly imprisoned for about one year."
Conviction Caused By:	Circumstantial evidence and testimony by the woman who received the letter.
Innocence Proved By:	"On January 18, 1912 Krueger was granted a full pardon by President William Taft."
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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, pp. 128-132 (Oscar Krueger - Chapter 21.)"
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Oscar Krueger

Charge:

Obsenity Related Charge

Sentence:

18 months

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1910

Year Convicted:

1911

Year Cleared:

1912

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York - Federal Case

County or Region of Crime:

New York

City of Crime:

New York City

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Circumstantial evidence and testimony by the woman who received the letter.

Innocence Proved By:

"On January 18, 1912 Krueger was granted a full pardon by President William Taft."

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Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

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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, pp. 128-132 (Oscar Krueger - Chapter 21.)"

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