Lemuel Parrott

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	2
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Year Convicted:	1947
Year Cleared:	1949
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	North Carolina
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Lemuel Parrott was codefendant of Sam Thompson. In 1947 Sam Thompson was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison, and Parrott was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Based on new evidence that both men were several hundred miles from the scene of murder at time it occurred, Parrot was granted a new trial. He was acquitted after his retrial in 1949. Parrott spent almost two years on death row. Thompson did not have a retrial and he was paroled in 1959."
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Innocence Proved By:	"Parrott was acquitted after a retrial in 1949, based on new evidence he was 200 miles from the scene of the crime at the time it occurred."
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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. 151."
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Lemuel Parrott

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1947

Year Cleared:

1949

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

North Carolina

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"Parrott was acquitted after a retrial in 1949, based on new evidence he was 200 miles from the scene of the crime at the time it occurred."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 151."

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