Edward Oscar

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Charge:	Attempted Rape
Sentence:	20 years
Years Imprisoned:	5
Year Crime:	1948
Year Convicted:	1948
Year Cleared:	1953
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Missouri
County or Region of Crime:	Jackson
City of Crime:	Kansas City
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Edward Oscar was wrongly convicted in 1948 by a jury in Kansas City, Missouri of attempted rape of an 11-year-old girl based on the testimony of the alleged victim. Oscar was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Five years later the alleged victim confessed to authorities in 1953 that she committed perjury because Oscar had not raped her. Based on the new evidence of the alleged victim's recantation proving that no crime had been committed Oscar's conviction was set aside, his indictment dismissed, and he was released from prison in March 1953. Oscar was not awarded any compensation for his five years of wrongful imprisonment."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjury by the alleged rape victim.
Innocence Proved By:	"Based on the new evidence of the alleged victim's recantation proving that no crime had been committed Oscar's conviction was set aside, his indictment dismissed, and he was released from prison in March 1953."
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Compensation Awarded:	No
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Age When Imprisoned:	60
Age When Released:	65
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 198"
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 252."
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Edward Oscar

Charge:

Attempted Rape

Sentence:

20 years

Years Imprisoned:

5

Year Crime:

1948

Year Convicted:

1948

Year Cleared:

1953

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Missouri

County or Region of Crime:

Jackson

City of Crime:

Kansas City

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjury by the alleged rape victim.

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on the new evidence of the alleged victim's recantation proving that no crime had been committed Oscar's conviction was set aside, his indictment dismissed, and he was released from prison in March 1953."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

60

Age When Released:

65

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, p. 198"

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 252."

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