Arthur J. O'Connell

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Charge:	Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)
Sentence:	8 to 12 years
Years Imprisoned:	0.1
Year Crime:	1935
Year Convicted:	1935
Year Cleared:	1935
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Massachusetts
County or Region of Crime:	Suffolk
City of Crime:	Boston
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Arthur J. O'Connell was wrongly convicted of sexual assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Boston in May 1935. The jury convicted the 36-year-old O'Connell based on the testimony of the alleged victim and her 13-year-old girlfriend who testified she witnessed the assault. O'Connell was sentenced to 8 to 12 years in prison. A month after his conviction the girl's confessed to the police that O'Connell had merely stopped to talk to the girls, and they had made up the story about the assault "just for fun." The charges against O'Connell were dismissed and he was released after a months incarceration."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjury by the alleged victim and her friend.
Innocence Proved By:	"A month after his conviction the girl's confessed to the police that O'Connell had merely stopped to talk to the girls, and they had made up the story about the assault "just for fun." The charges against O'Connell were dismissed and he was released after a months incarceration."
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Age When Imprisoned:	36
Age When Released:	36
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 193-194."
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Arthur J. O'Connell

Charge:

Sexual Assault (includes aggravated)

Sentence:

8 to 12 years

Years Imprisoned:

0.1

Year Crime:

1935

Year Convicted:

1935

Year Cleared:

1935

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

Suffolk

City of Crime:

Boston

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjury by the alleged victim and her friend.

Innocence Proved By:

"A month after his conviction the girl's confessed to the police that O'Connell had merely stopped to talk to the girls, and they had made up the story about the assault "just for fun." The charges against O'Connell were dismissed and he was released after a months incarceration."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

36

Age When Released:

36

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Male

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 193-194."

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