Jerry Pacek

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Charge:	Murder and Rape
Sentence:	10 to 20 years
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	1958
Year Convicted:	1959
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pennsylvania
County or Region of Crime:	Allegheny
City of Crime:	Brackenridge
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	Jerry Pacek
Conviction Caused By:	False confession after 17 hours of interrogation when Jerry Pacek was 13 years old.
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Age When Imprisoned:	13
Age When Released:	23
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Jerry Pacek, The National Registry of Exonerations"
Information Location 1:	https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3519
Information Source 2:	"Exonerations In The United States 1989 Through 2003, Samuel R Gross et al, The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2005"
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Jerry Pacek

Charge:

Murder and Rape

Sentence:

10 to 20 years

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

1958

Year Convicted:

1959

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pennsylvania

County or Region of Crime:

Allegheny

City of Crime:

Brackenridge

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Jerry Pacek

Conviction Caused By:

False confession after 17 hours of interrogation when Jerry Pacek was 13 years old.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

13

Age When Released:

23

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Jerry Pacek, The National Registry of Exonerations"

Information Location 1:

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3519

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"Exonerations In The United States 1989 Through 2003, Samuel R Gross et al, The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 95, No. 2, 2005"

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