Jakob Lowinger

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Charge:	Drug Related (Possession or sale)
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Year Crime:	2008
Year Convicted:	2008
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pennsylvania
County or Region of Crime:	Philadelphia
City of Crime:	Philadelphia
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Jakob Lowinger was wrongly convicted in 2008 of drug charges in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On June 19, 2015 a Philadelphia common pleas judge vacated the convictions of 58 defendants, that included Silverstein, whose drug charge related convictions were based on investigations by one or more of six Philadelphia police officers accused in July 2014 of corruption that included filing false police reports and testifying perjuriously to obtain convictions. As of June 19, 2015, 234 drug related convictions had been vacated that depended on evidence provided by one or more of the six officers, and it is expected that hundreds more could be vacated."
Conviction Caused By:	Police corruption.
Innocence Proved By:	"On June 19, 2015 a common pleas judge vacated the convictions of 58 defendants whose druge charge related convictions were based on investigations by one or more of six Philadelphia police officers accused of corruption that included filing false police reports."
Defendant Aided By:	Defender Association of Philadelphia
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"58 drug convictions tied to narcotics squad tossed, By Julie Shaw (Staff Writer), Philadelphia Daily News, June 21, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150621_58_drug_convictions_tied_to_narcotics_squad_tossed.html
Information Source 2:	"More than 100 drug convictions thrown out, , By Julie Shaw (Staff Writer), Philadelphia Daily News, March 8, 2015"
Information Location 2:	http://articles.philly.com/2015-03-08/news/59898177_1_convictions-perry-betts-john-speiser
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Jakob Lowinger

Charge:

Drug Related (Possession or sale)

Sentence:

Years Imprisoned:

Year Crime:

2008

Year Convicted:

2008

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pennsylvania

County or Region of Crime:

Philadelphia

City of Crime:

Philadelphia

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police corruption.

Innocence Proved By:

"On June 19, 2015 a common pleas judge vacated the convictions of 58 defendants whose druge charge related convictions were based on investigations by one or more of six Philadelphia police officers accused of corruption that included filing false police reports."

Defendant Aided By:

Defender Association of Philadelphia

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"58 drug convictions tied to narcotics squad tossed, By Julie Shaw (Staff Writer), Philadelphia Daily News, June 21, 2015"

Information Location 1:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150621_58_drug_convictions_tied_to_narcotics_squad_tossed.html

Information Source 2:

"More than 100 drug convictions thrown out, , By Julie Shaw (Staff Writer), Philadelphia Daily News, March 8, 2015"

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http://articles.philly.com/2015-03-08/news/59898177_1_convictions-perry-betts-john-speiser

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