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20 |
Charge: |
First Degree Murder |
Sentence: |
Death |
Year Convicted: |
1943 |
Year
Cleared:
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1963 |
Location
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California |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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Death Row inmate. His execution was averted by a last-minute correspondence between Erle Stanley Gardner and the governor's office, state supreme court, and lieutenant governor. His was eventually exonerated and released after 20 years in prison. |
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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. 141. |
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