Ralph W. Lobaugh

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Charge:	Murder and Rape
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	30
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Year Convicted:	1947
Year Cleared:	1950
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Indiana
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Wrongly convicted in 1947 of three separate rape and murders based on his false confession to the crimes and an eyewitness to one of the crimes who testified at his trial. Ralph Lobaugh was sentenced to death. Within three years another man had been convicted of one of the crimes and still another man had been convicted of the two other rape/murders and been executed. Although he had been cleared of the crimes, in 1951 Indiana Governor Henry Schricker didn't pardon him, but because he was a homosexual he commuted his sentence to life in prison and he was transferred to a mental institution -- although he had no mental problems. In 1977 Lobaugh was released on parole, 28 years after he had been cleared of the crimes."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession and erroneous eyewitness identification at trial.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 328"
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Information Source 2:	"“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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Ralph W. Lobaugh

Charge:

Murder and Rape

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

30

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1947

Year Cleared:

1950

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Indiana

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False confession and erroneous eyewitness identification at trial.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 328"

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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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