Pamela Sue Reser

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Charge:	Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation)
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment (116 year min.)
Years Imprisoned:	3.5
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Year Convicted:	1999
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Oregon
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Pamela Sue Reser was wrongly convicted of raping three of her children based on the false testimony of those children. Reser was sentenced to a minimum term of 116 years in prison. Pamela Reser's conviction was reversed and she was released from prison on June 1, 2002 based on the children recanting their testimony, which had been uncorroborated by any physical evidence of any abuse of any kind by Pamela Reser against any of her children."
Conviction Caused By:	False eyewitness testimony of three children against their mother.
Innocence Proved By:	"Recantation by the three witnesses that no abuse of any kind had occurred, and those recantations were consistent with the absence of any physical evidence of any kind that any abuse had occurred."
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Age When Imprisoned:	34
Age When Released:	37
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	""Wrongly Jailed Mom Freed," Matthew D. LaPlante (staff), McMinnville News Register, (Local News Section) June 1, 2002."
Information Location 1:	http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=151087
Information Source 2:	""Reser not the first to face false accusations," David Bates (staff), McMinnville News Register (Local News Section), June 1, 2002."
Information Location 2:	http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=151093
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Pamela Sue Reser

Charge:

Child/Minor Sex Abuse (incl. molestation)

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment (116 year min.)

Years Imprisoned:

3.5

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1999

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Oregon

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

False eyewitness testimony of three children against their mother.

Innocence Proved By:

"Recantation by the three witnesses that no abuse of any kind had occurred, and those recantations were consistent with the absence of any physical evidence of any kind that any abuse had occurred."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

34

Age When Released:

37

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

""Wrongly Jailed Mom Freed," Matthew D. LaPlante (staff), McMinnville News Register, (Local News Section) June 1, 2002."

Information Location 1:

http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=151087

Information Source 2:

""Reser not the first to face false accusations," David Bates (staff), McMinnville News Register (Local News Section), June 1, 2002."

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http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=151093

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