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Wrongly
Convicted Database
Record
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Years
Imprisoned:
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3.5 |
Charge: |
Child Abuse |
Sentence: |
Life Imprisonment (116 year min.) |
Year Convicted: |
1999 |
Year
Cleared:
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2002 |
Location
of Trial:
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Oregon |
Result:
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Judicially Exonerated Released |
Summary
of Case:
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Wrongly convicted of raping three of her children based on the false testimony of those children. 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:
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False eyewitness testimony of three children against their mother. |
Innocence
Proved By:
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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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Was Perpetrator Found? |
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Age
When Imprisoned:
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34 |
Age
When Released:
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37 |
Information Source 1: |
""Wrongly Jailed Mom Freed," Matthew D. LaPlante (staff), McMinnville News Register, (Local News Section) June 1, 2002." |
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http://www.newsregister.com/news/results.cfm?story_no=151087 |
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Source 2:
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""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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Ethnicity/Skin:
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White |
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