Sakae Menda

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Charge:	Murder and Robbery
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	34
Year Crime:	1948
Year Convicted:	1949
Year Cleared:	1983
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Japan
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Wrongly convicted of murder and robbery in 1949 based on his false confession. Sakae Menda was sentenced to death. Menda's conviction quashed in 1983 based on determination he had falsely confessed and that the prosection had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to Menda's lawyers prior to his trial. Menda was released after 34 years on death row.
Conviction Caused By:	Police extracted false confession and prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence.
Innocence Proved By:	Menda's conviction quashed in 1993 based on determination he had falsely confessed and that the prosection had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to Menda's lawyers prior to his trial.
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Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	57
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Japanese lawyers criticize execution of three people, By Stuart Biggs, Bloomberg.net, August 23, 2007"
Information Location 1:	http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=amX3OB25Gcmc&refer=japan
Information Source 2:	"List of exonerated death row inmates, Wikipedia.com, August 27, 2007"
Information Location 2:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates#Japan
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Sakae Menda

Charge:

Murder and Robbery

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

34

Year Crime:

1948

Year Convicted:

1949

Year Cleared:

1983

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Japan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police extracted false confession and prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence.

Innocence Proved By:

Menda's conviction quashed in 1993 based on determination he had falsely confessed and that the prosection had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to Menda's lawyers prior to his trial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

57

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Japanese lawyers criticize execution of three people, By Stuart Biggs, Bloomberg.net, August 23, 2007"

Information Location 1:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=amX3OB25Gcmc&refer=japan

Information Source 2:

"List of exonerated death row inmates, Wikipedia.com, August 27, 2007"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates#Japan

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