Eugene Padgett

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	99 years
Years Imprisoned:	15
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Year Convicted:	1940
Year Cleared:	1955
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Texas
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Falsely confessed to murder while serving a 2 year sentence for burglary, because he thought he would be able to escape from jail while the murder trial was going on. Served 15 years on the false murder conviction before having his conviction set aside in July 1955. No compensation was awarded."
Conviction Caused By:	False confession.
Innocence Proved By:	Conviction set aside and freed in July 1955.
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Compensation Awarded:	No
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 150."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 252."
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Eugene Padgett

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

99 years

Years Imprisoned:

15

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1940

Year Cleared:

1955

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Texas

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Falsely confessed to murder while serving a 2 year sentence for burglary, because he thought he would be able to escape from jail while the murder trial was going on. Served 15 years on the false murder conviction before having his conviction set aside in July 1955. No compensation was awarded."

Conviction Caused By:

False confession.

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction set aside and freed in July 1955.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 150."

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

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