Julie Rea-Harper

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	65 years
Years Imprisoned:	2
Year Crime:	1997
Year Convicted:	2002
Year Cleared:	2006
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Lawrence
City of Crime:	Lawrenceville
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Julie Rea-Harper was wrongly convicted in 2002 of murdering her 10-year-old son Joel in 1997 by stabbing him to death in her Lawrenceville, Illinois home. Her defense was that a masked intruder had stabbed her son. A man on Texas' death row provided details about the crime not known to the public when he confessed to murdering the 10-year-old. The Illinois Court of Appeals vacated her conviction in 2004, and she was released on bond pending a retrial. A jury acquitted Julie Rea-Harper on July 26, 2006, after a retrial."
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Innocence Proved By:	"The Illinois Court of Appeals vacated her conviction in 2004, and she was released on bond pending a retrial. A jury acquitted Julie Rea-Harper on July 26, 2006, after a retrial. . "
Defendant Aided By:	Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University
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Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	35
Age When Released:	37
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Woman Cleared in Retrial of Son's Death, by Jim Suhr (AP), Washington Post, July 26, 2006"
Information Location 1:	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601859.html
Information Source 2:	"Downstate mom acquitted in son's murder retrial, by Jim Suhr (AP), Chicago Sun-Times, July 26, 2006"
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Julie Rea-Harper

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

65 years

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

1997

Year Convicted:

2002

Year Cleared:

2006

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Lawrence

City of Crime:

Lawrenceville

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"The Illinois Court of Appeals vacated her conviction in 2004, and she was released on bond pending a retrial. A jury acquitted Julie Rea-Harper on July 26, 2006, after a retrial. . "

Defendant Aided By:

Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

35

Age When Released:

37

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Woman Cleared in Retrial of Son's Death, by Jim Suhr (AP), Washington Post, July 26, 2006"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601859.html

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"Downstate mom acquitted in son's murder retrial, by Jim Suhr (AP), Chicago Sun-Times, July 26, 2006"

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