Jack Ryan

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	25
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Year Convicted:	1928
Year Cleared:	1996
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Humboldt
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Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Jack Ryan was wrongly convicted in 1928 of murder based on his confession that the police obtained after physically coercing him. Ryan immediately recanted his confession as coerced. Ryan was sentenced to life in prison. He was paroled in 1953 after serving almost 25 years of his senence. New evidence of Ryan's innocence was discovered during a ten year long investigation by a former district attorney, including that key prosecution witnesses had committed perjury, and a pardon application was submitted on his behalf, since he had died on August 28, 1978. California Governor Pete Wilson posthumously pardoned Jack Ryan on April 15, 1996 on the basis of his actual innocence, saying "Unfortunately, we cannot do justice for Jack Ryan, the man. But we can do justice for Jack Ryan, the memory. And by doing so, we breathe vitality into our system of justice. . . . Therefore, so that justice is maintained, I grant Jack Ryan posthumously a pardon based on innocence.""
Conviction Caused By:	"False confession coerced by the police, and perjury by prosecution witnesses."
Innocence Proved By:	"California Governor Pete Wilson posthumously pardoned Jack Ryan on April 15, 1996 on the basis of his actual innocence."
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Sex:	Male
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Information Source 1:	"Posthumous Pardon For Unjust Conviction / Man imprisoned 25 years for 2 murders, By Chronicle Staff and Wire Reports, San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1996"
Information Location 1:	http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Posthumous-Pardon-For-Unjust-Conviction-Man-2986296.php
Information Source 2:	"“Bending Toward Justice - The Posthumous Pardon of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper,” Darryl W. Jackson, Jeffrey H. Smith, and Edward H. Sisson, and Helene T. Krasnoff, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 74, 1251, 1279-1280 (1999)"
Information Location 2:	http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/volumes/v74/no4/flipper.pdf
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Jack Ryan

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

25

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1928

Year Cleared:

1996

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Humboldt

City of Crime:

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"False confession coerced by the police, and perjury by prosecution witnesses."

Innocence Proved By:

"California Governor Pete Wilson posthumously pardoned Jack Ryan on April 15, 1996 on the basis of his actual innocence."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

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Male

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Information Source 1:

"Posthumous Pardon For Unjust Conviction / Man imprisoned 25 years for 2 murders, By Chronicle Staff and Wire Reports, San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1996"

Information Location 1:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Posthumous-Pardon-For-Unjust-Conviction-Man-2986296.php

Information Source 2:

"“Bending Toward Justice - The Posthumous Pardon of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper,” Darryl W. Jackson, Jeffrey H. Smith, and Edward H. Sisson, and Helene T. Krasnoff, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 74, 1251, 1279-1280 (1999)"

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http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/volumes/v74/no4/flipper.pdf

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