Alexander Ripan

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	14
Year Crime:	1919
Year Convicted:	1919
Year Cleared:	1939
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Michigan
County or Region of Crime:	Wayne
City of Crime:	Detroit
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Alexander Ripan was wrongly convicted of first-degree murder in 1919 and sentenced ot life in prison. Ripan escaped from prison in 1929 after 10 years of wrongful imprisonment. Ripan was captured in 1935. A prosecutor became convinced of Ripan's innocence and helped him obtain a new trial based on a ballistic experts analysis based on techniques not available at the time of his 1919 trial proving that the bullet that killed the victim could not have come from Ripan's gun. Ripan was acquitted in 1939 after his retrial. Ripan was imprisoned for a total of 14 years.
Conviction Caused By:	Alexander Ripan's gun was erroneously identified by the police as the murder weapon.
Innocence Proved By:	Acquitted after a retrial in 1939.
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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 hard cover ed., p. 341."
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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. 155."
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Information Source 3:	"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, pp. 187-188."
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Alexander Ripan

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

14

Year Crime:

1919

Year Convicted:

1919

Year Cleared:

1939

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Michigan

County or Region of Crime:

Wayne

City of Crime:

Detroit

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Alexander Ripan's gun was erroneously identified by the police as the murder weapon.

Innocence Proved By:

Acquitted after a retrial in 1939.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

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 hard cover ed., p. 341."

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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. 155."

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"''Not Guilty," Judge Jerome Frank and Barbara Frank, Doubleday, NY, 1957, pp. 187-188."

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