Allison M. MacFarland

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	1
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Year Convicted:	1912
Year Cleared:	1913
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Jersey
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Allison M. MacFarland was wrongly convicted in 1912 of murdering his wife Evelyn by poison. He was sentenced to death. MacFarland's conviction was reversed four months based on the trial judge allowing the prosecution to admit letters between him and another woman to establish he had a motive to kill her. During MacFarland's retrial the woman testified that she wrote the letters, but that he intended to divorce his wife. There was also testimony that the poison Mrs. MacFarland took was kept next to her sleeping pills in a medicine cabinet. So she either could have accidentally or deliberately taken the poison herself. The jury acquitted MacFarland after his retrial."
Conviction Caused By:	The trial judge improperly admitted prejudicial evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	The jury acquitted MacFarland after his retrial.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 142."
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Allison M. MacFarland

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1912

Year Cleared:

1913

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Jersey

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

The trial judge improperly admitted prejudicial evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

The jury acquitted MacFarland after his retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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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. 142."

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