Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Murder Accessory |
Sentence: |
5 years |
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Year Crime: |
1945 |
Year Convicted: |
1967 |
Year Cleared: |
1968 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
Germany |
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City of Crime: |
Berlin |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary of Case: |
Hans-Joachim Rehse |
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Innocence Proved By: |
"On December 8, 1968 the appeals court in Berlin acquitted Rehse." |
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Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"See Possibility of Legal Precedent in Freeing of Former Nazi Judge, By Staff writer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Bonn, West Germany, Dec. 8), December 9, 1968" |
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http://www.jta.org/1968/12/09/archive/see-possibility-of-legal-precedent-in-freeing-of-former-nazi-judge |
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"Germany: Acquittal of the Blood Judge, By Staff writer, Time (magazine), December 20, 1968" |
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"http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844696,00.html" |
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