Ronald Leighton

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Charge:	Murder and Arson
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Years Imprisoned:	3
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Year Convicted:	1972
Year Cleared:	1975
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Ronald Leighton was co-defendant of Colin Lattimore & Ahmet Salih. All three were teenagers who falsely confessed and signed false confessions related to an arson and murder of 26 y/o Maxwell Confait after hours of police interrogation and no consultation of the boys with an attorney. Two of the boys were illiterate and of very low intelligence and the third boy spoke English as a second language. The three defendants were exonerated in November 1975. In 1979, 4 years after the boys were exonerated, two other people confessed to the murder and confirmed the innocence of the boys."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession by all three co-defendants to a murder they didn't commit.
Innocence Proved By:	Convictions overturned by the Ct. of Appeals.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	15
Age When Released:	18
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony," Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 239-240"
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Ronald Leighton

Charge:

Murder and Arson

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1972

Year Cleared:

1975

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession by all three co-defendants to a murder they didn't commit.

Innocence Proved By:

Convictions overturned by the Ct. of Appeals.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

15

Age When Released:

18

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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""The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony," Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 239-240"

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