Theodore Marcinkiewicz

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	99 years
Years Imprisoned:	18
Year Crime:	1932
Year Convicted:	1933
Year Cleared:	1950
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Cook
City of Crime:	Chicago
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Theodore Marcinkiewicz was codefendant of Joseph Majczek. Both men were wrongly convicted of murdering a policeman in Chicago and sentenced to 99 years in prison. The men's convictions were based on the perjurious testimony of the prosecution's star eyewitness. Majczek's story was the subject of movie "Call Northside 777" (1948) starring Jimmy Stewart. Both men were arrested in December 1932 and convicted in February 1933. Majczek was pardoned by Illinois' governor and released in 1945. Theodore Marcinkiewicz was released in 1950 when an Illinois state judge granted his habeas corpus petition based on evidence the prosecution's key witness lied. Although Majczek was awarded $24,000 in compensation by the Illinois legislature, Marcinkiewicz was denied compensation by the Illinois Court of Claims for his almost 18 years of wrongful imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjurious testimony of the prosecution's star eyewitness.
Innocence Proved By:	Theodore Marcinkiewicz was released in 1950 when an Illinois state judge granted his habeas corpus petition based on evidence the prosecution's key witness lied.
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Compensation Awarded:	No
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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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Information Source 2:	"'Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, pp. 17-39."
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Information Source 3:	""The Innocents," Edward D. Radin, William Morrow & Co, New York, 1964, 7-8, 239."
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Movie About Case:	"“Call Northside 777,” 1948, Dir., Henry Hathaway, Producer: Twentieth-Century Fox, Starring: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb."
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Theodore Marcinkiewicz

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

99 years

Years Imprisoned:

18

Year Crime:

1932

Year Convicted:

1933

Year Cleared:

1950

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Chicago

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjurious testimony of the prosecution's star eyewitness.

Innocence Proved By:

Theodore Marcinkiewicz was released in 1950 when an Illinois state judge granted his habeas corpus petition based on evidence the prosecution's key witness lied.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

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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Information Source 2:

"'Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, pp. 17-39."

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""The Innocents," Edward D. Radin, William Morrow & Co, New York, 1964, 7-8, 239."

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Movie About Case:

"“Call Northside 777,” 1948, Dir., Henry Hathaway, Producer: Twentieth-Century Fox, Starring: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb."

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