Eli J. Long

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	2
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Year Convicted:	1918
Year Cleared:	1920
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Wisconsin
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Eli J Long was wrongly convicted of murder in Wisconsin. He was exonerated in 1920 based on newly discovered evidence after his conviction, and while he was free on bond pending the outcome of his appeal. The Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill in 1927 allowing Long $2,750, but the Governor vetoed it on the ground the statute only applied to persons who serve their imposed term of imprisonment and not to those who merely serve time pending appeal."
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Compensation Awarded:	No
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932, p. 383"
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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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Eli J. Long

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1918

Year Cleared:

1920

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Wisconsin

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Convicting the Innocent - Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice, by Edwin Borchard, Yale Univ Press, 1932, p. 383"

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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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