Chol Soo Lee

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	9
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Year Convicted:	1974
Year Cleared:	1982
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	San Francisco
City of Crime:	San Francisco
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Chol Soo Lee was wrongly convicted in 1974 of first-degree murder in San Francisco, California. Lee's conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. His post-conviction petition was granted and a new trial ordered based on evidence the eyewitness identification of him was erroneous, and the prosecution failed to disclose exculpatory evidence. Lee was acquitted by a jury in 1982 after his retrial. The new evidence that resulted in Lee's exoneration was discovered during the investigation of Lee's killing of a fellow inmate for which he was convicted in 1977. Lee's conviction for killing the inmate was overturned on appeal due to a faulty jury instruction, and he was released from prison in 1983. Later in 1983 he pled guilty to a reduced charge in the inmate killing in a plea deal for a sentence of time served."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness identification and prosecution misconduct of concealing exculpatory evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	Lee was acquitted by a jury in 1982 after his retrial.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Asian
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 139."
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Chol Soo Lee

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

9

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1974

Year Cleared:

1982

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

San Francisco

City of Crime:

San Francisco

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness identification and prosecution misconduct of concealing exculpatory evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

Lee was acquitted by a jury in 1982 after his retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Asian

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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. 139."

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