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Wrongly
Convicted Database
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Years
Imprisoned:
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25 |
Charge: |
Rape |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment |
Year Convicted: |
1924 |
Year
Cleared:
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1949 |
Location
of Trial:
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Illinois |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
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Wrongly convicted of a phantom rape of a 62 yr old woman that sold items door to door, solely on the woman's word. The prosecutor concealed that the woman couldn't recognize Mongomery the day after she had ID him at police headquarters under the prosecutor's direction. AFter a two year investigation, a Chicago lawyer filed a writ of habeas corpus in 1949, and on June 27th Federal Judge Michael Igo declared that Montgomery's innocence was clear, as was the prosecutor's guilt of manipulating the woman into give false testimony about a rape that never occurred. |
Conviction
Caused By:
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False eyewitness testimony and prosecutorial misconduct of manipulating the witness to testify to a rape that never occurred |
Innocence
Proved By:
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Judicially declared to be innocent after an evidentiary hearing.
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Compensation Awarded: |
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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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26 |
Age
When Released:
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51 |
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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, pp. 151-154" |
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The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 243 |
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