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Ricky Lynn Pitts

Years Imprisoned:	6
Charge:	Child Abuse
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment with 373 year minimum
Year Convicted:	1985
Year Cleared:	1990
Location of Trial:	California
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"One of the Pitt Seven. In August 1985 all seven were wrongly convicted in Kern County (Bakersfield) CA of a total of 377counts of child abuse and conspiracy. All seven convictions were reversed by the Calif. Ct. of Appeals in 1990 on the grounds that the wrongful convictions were procurred by prosecutorial misconduct during the trial and closing arguments that were unprecedented in the Court's experience. "By 1994 all of the child witnesses had recanted and claimed their testimony was coerced." Pitts v. County of Kern at 347."
Conviction Caused By:	Prosecutorial misconduct of presenting improper evidence, making improper and disparaging remarks about the defendants and defense counsel throughout the trial, and making improper remarks during closing arguments.
Innocence Proved By:	Conviction reversed by the CA Ct. of Appeals.
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Compensation Awarded:	Filed Suit against Kern County
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Information Source 1:	People v Pitts, 223 Cal. App. 3d 606 (1990); 273 Cal. Rptr. 757.
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Information Source 2:	Pitts v. County of Kern, 17 Cal. 4th 340 (1998)
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Information Source 3:	""Mean Justice," Edward Humes, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1999, p. 450."
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Ethnicity/Skin:	White
Book About Case:	""Mean Justice," Edward Humes, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1999, p. 450."
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Ricky Lynn Pitts

Years Imprisoned:

6

Charge:

Child Abuse

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment with 373 year minimum

Year Convicted:

1985

Year Cleared:

1990

Location of Trial:

California

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Prosecutorial misconduct of presenting improper evidence, making improper and disparaging remarks about the defendants and defense counsel throughout the trial, and making improper remarks during closing arguments.

Innocence Proved By:

Conviction reversed by the CA Ct. of Appeals.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Filed Suit against Kern County

Was Perpetrator Found?

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Information Source 1:

People v Pitts, 223 Cal. App. 3d 606 (1990); 273 Cal. Rptr. 757.

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Pitts v. County of Kern, 17 Cal. 4th 340 (1998)

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""Mean Justice," Edward Humes, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1999, p. 450."

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Ethnicity/Skin:

White

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""Mean Justice," Edward Humes, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1999, p. 450."

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