Henry J. Lambert

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	22
Year Crime:	1901
Year Convicted:	1901
Year Cleared:	1923
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Maine
County or Region of Crime:	Piscataquis
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Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Henry J. Lambert was a French-Canadian wrongly convicted in 1901 of first-degree murder in the death of his wife Mary and his 15-year-old daughter Carrie Louise, during a fire that burned their farmhouse to the ground. Henry Lambert couldn't speak English at the time of his trial. After his conviction by a jury he was sentenced to life in prison. Lambert spent 22 years in prison before proof of his innocence convinced Maine's Governor Baxter to grant him a full pardon in 1923."
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Innocence Proved By:	Lambert spent 22 years in prison before proof of his innocence convinced Maine's Governor Baxter to grant him a full pardon in 1923.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 136."
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Henry J. Lambert

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

22

Year Crime:

1901

Year Convicted:

1901

Year Cleared:

1923

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Maine

County or Region of Crime:

Piscataquis

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

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Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Lambert spent 22 years in prison before proof of his innocence convinced Maine's Governor Baxter to grant him a full pardon in 1923.

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 136."

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