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Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Rape |
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Years Imprisoned: |
14 |
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Year Convicted: |
1991 |
Year Cleared: |
2004 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
North Carolina |
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Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"James Bernard Parker was wrongly accused and charged with multiple counts of child rape in 1990. After an investigation was begun by a Univ. of North Carolina journalism student in 2001 who continued it as his Masters Thesis, by Dec 2002, 15 of the alleged victims had recanted and said that James Parker never did anything to them." |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
31 |
Age When Released: |
44 |
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Male |
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Information Source 1: |
"Imperfect Justice, Joshua Myerov, Charlotte Observer, January 16, 2005" |
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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/editorial/10657872.htm?1c |
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Innocents Database Created and Maintained by Hans Sherrer innocents@forejustice.org