Alvin Mansell

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Charge:	Rape
Sentence:	Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life
Years Imprisoned:	5
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Year Convicted:	1925
Year Cleared:	1930
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	North Carolina
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Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Alvin Mansell was wrongly convicted of rape in 1925. Mansell, who was considered mentally retarded, was sentenced to death. After a year on death row, in 1926 North Carolina Governor Angus McLean commuted Mansell's sentence to life imprisonment based on new evidence by two physicans that Mansell didn't commit the crime, that the victim's initial description of her assailant was contradictory and didn't match Mansell, and alibi evidence that he couldn't have been at the crime scene. McLean may also have been influenced on a clemency petition signed by four thousand people. In 1930 N.C. Governor O. Max Gardner granted Mansell a full pardon and ordered his release based on his assessment that he was "absolutely convinced" Mansell was innocent."
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Innocence Proved By:	"In 1930 N.C. Governor O. Max Gardner granted Mansell a full pardon and ordered his release based on his assessment that he was "absolutely convinced" Mansell was innocent."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 143+."
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Alvin Mansell

Charge:

Rape

Sentence:

Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1925

Year Cleared:

1930

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

North Carolina

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"In 1930 N.C. Governor O. Max Gardner granted Mansell a full pardon and ordered his release based on his assessment that he was "absolutely convinced" Mansell was innocent."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

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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. 143+."

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