Clarence Moore

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Charge:	Rape and Robbery (including burglary)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	15
Year Crime:	1986
Year Convicted:	1987
Year Cleared:	2001
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Jersey
County or Region of Crime:	Atlantic
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Clarence Moore was wrongly prosecuted and convicted in 1987 of raping a white woman on the basis that he was married to a caucasian and the victim was a caucasian, so he evidently likes them. In reversing his conviction in 2001, the 3rd US Ct of Appeals ruled that the prosecutors remarks about his being guilty because he likes caucasian women as "outrageous" and "offensive." The raped woman only got a brief glance of her attacker in the dark room."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness cross-racial identification of him by the rape victim who only had a brief glance of her attacker in her dark bedroom.
Innocence Proved By:	"In reversing his conviction in 2001, the 3rd US Ct of Appeals ruled that the prosecutors remarks about his being guilty because he likes caucasian women as "outrageous" and "offensive.""
Defendant Aided By:	Centurion Ministries
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	Centurion Ministries website
Information Location 1:	http://www.centurionministries.org/cases.html
Information Source 2:	""A Breath of Free Air; in a Life Interrupted," Stuart Ditzen (staff writer), The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 26, 2001."
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Clarence Moore

Charge:

Rape and Robbery (including burglary)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

15

Year Crime:

1986

Year Convicted:

1987

Year Cleared:

2001

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Jersey

County or Region of Crime:

Atlantic

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness cross-racial identification of him by the rape victim who only had a brief glance of her attacker in her dark bedroom.

Innocence Proved By:

"In reversing his conviction in 2001, the 3rd US Ct of Appeals ruled that the prosecutors remarks about his being guilty because he likes caucasian women as "outrageous" and "offensive.""

Defendant Aided By:

Centurion Ministries

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

Centurion Ministries website

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http://www.centurionministries.org/cases.html

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""A Breath of Free Air; in a Life Interrupted," Stuart Ditzen (staff writer), The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 26, 2001."

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