Peter Quartararo

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Charge:	Second Degree Murder
Sentence:	9 years to life imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	8.5
Year Crime:	1979
Year Convicted:	1981
Year Cleared:	1989
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New York
County or Region of Crime:	Suffolk
City of Crime:	Smithtown
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Peter Quartararo
Conviction Caused By:	Peter Quartararo was 16 when the murder occurred and when subjected to coercive police interrogation eight days after the murder without his parents or a lawyer present he made involuntary admissions and confessions about the crime. After Quartararo's mother arrived he recanted his confession.
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Age When Imprisoned:	19
Age When Released:	27
Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Quartararo v. Mantello, 715 F.Supp. 449 (E.D.N.Y.1989) (granting Quartararo's petition for a writ of habeas corpus), aff'd, 849 F.2d 1467 (2d Cir.1989)."
Information Location 1:	"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=459586473216903460&q=715+F.Supp.+449+&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"
Information Source 2:	"Inevitable Error: Wrongful New York State Homicide Convictions, 1965-1988, by Marty I. Rosenbaum, 18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 807, 825"
Information Location 2:	http://deskovic.org/research/article/id/Inevitable-Error-Wrongful-New-York-State-Homicide-Convictions
Information Source 3:	"Guilty plea ends odyssey that began with boy's 1979 killing, By Andrew Smith, Newsday (NY), June 20, 2003"
Information Location 3:	http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/guilty-plea-ends-odyssey-that-began-with-boy-s-1979-killing-1.1874325
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Peter Quartararo

Charge:

Second Degree Murder

Sentence:

9 years to life imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

8.5

Year Crime:

1979

Year Convicted:

1981

Year Cleared:

1989

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New York

County or Region of Crime:

Suffolk

City of Crime:

Smithtown

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Peter Quartararo

Conviction Caused By:

Peter Quartararo was 16 when the murder occurred and when subjected to coercive police interrogation eight days after the murder without his parents or a lawyer present he made involuntary admissions and confessions about the crime. After Quartararo's mother arrived he recanted his confession.

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

19

Age When Released:

27

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Information Source 1:

"Quartararo v. Mantello, 715 F.Supp. 449 (E.D.N.Y.1989) (granting Quartararo's petition for a writ of habeas corpus), aff'd, 849 F.2d 1467 (2d Cir.1989)."

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"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=459586473216903460&q=715+F.Supp.+449+&hl=en&as_sdt=6,48"

Information Source 2:

"Inevitable Error: Wrongful New York State Homicide Convictions, 1965-1988, by Marty I. Rosenbaum, 18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 807, 825"

Information Location 2:

http://deskovic.org/research/article/id/Inevitable-Error-Wrongful-New-York-State-Homicide-Convictions

Information Source 3:

"Guilty plea ends odyssey that began with boy's 1979 killing, By Andrew Smith, Newsday (NY), June 20, 2003"

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http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/guilty-plea-ends-odyssey-that-began-with-boy-s-1979-killing-1.1874325

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