Lloyd Prevost

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	11
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Year Convicted:	1919
Year Cleared:	1930
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Michigan
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Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	Wrongly convicted of murder by a jury in May 1920 and sentenced to life in prison. In 1925 actual murderer confessed to a priest. Michigan Gov. Fred Green pardoned Lloyd Prevost in Dec. 1930 after pardon board investigation. No compensation awarded for 10-1/2 years of wrongful imprisonment.
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Innocence Proved By:	Pardoned by MI Gov. Fred Green after investigation by pardon board confirmed Lloyd Prevost was innocent.
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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. 153."
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Information Source 2:	"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 255-256."
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Lloyd Prevost

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

11

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1919

Year Cleared:

1930

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Michigan

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Wrongly convicted of murder by a jury in May 1920 and sentenced to life in prison. In 1925 actual murderer confessed to a priest. Michigan Gov. Fred Green pardoned Lloyd Prevost in Dec. 1930 after pardon board investigation. No compensation awarded for 10-1/2 years of wrongful imprisonment.

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Pardoned by MI Gov. Fred Green after investigation by pardon board confirmed Lloyd Prevost was innocent.

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. 153."

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"The Innocents, Edward Radin,William Morrow & Co., 1964, p. 255-256."

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