Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Assault (Including Battery) |
Sentence: |
Bad conduct discharge |
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1972 |
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1972 |
Year Cleared: |
1973 |
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U.S. Military - Federal Case |
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Judicially Exonerated |
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"Cleveland Mallory was wrongly convicted of riot and assault aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on October 12-13, 1972. Mallory was sentenced to a bad conduct discharge and reduced to the rank of seaman recruit. Mallory's conviction was overturned by a Navy review in February 1973 and his record was expunged and his Seaman rank was restored." |
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Innocence Proved By: |
Mallory's conviction was overturrned by a Navy review in February 1973 and his record was expunged and his Seaman rank was restored. |
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Male |
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Black |
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"Conviction Of Black Overturned By Navy, AP story, The New York Times, February 28, 1973, p. 44" |
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