Kenny Ray Reichhoff

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	2
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Year Convicted:	1975
Year Cleared:	1977
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Wisconsin
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Kenny Ray Reichhoff was wrongly convicted in 1975 of two murders and sentenced to life in prison. The prosecution's case was based on circumstantial evidence. Reichhoff's conviction was reversed on appeal based on an erroneous jury instruction that allowed the jury to consider his silence at the time of his arrest was a de facto admission of guilt. Reichhoff was acquitted after his retrial in 1977. He was wrongly imprisoned for more than two years. Reichhoff spent tens of thousand of dollars proving his innocence, and attempts to pass a special bill in the Wisconsin to compensate him failed in 1980."
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Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted after a retrial.
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Compensation Awarded:	No
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 hardcover ed., 340."
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Information Source 2:	"“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 3:	"Reichhoff v State, 251 nw2d 470 (03-15-77)"
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Kenny Ray Reichhoff

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

2

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1975

Year Cleared:

1977

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Wisconsin

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted after a retrial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 hardcover ed., 340."

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"“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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"Reichhoff v State, 251 nw2d 470 (03-15-77)"

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