Wrongly Convicted Database Record
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Charge: |
Attempted Murder |
Sentence: |
157 - 201 months |
Years Imprisoned: |
1 |
Year Crime: |
2014 |
Year Convicted: |
2015 |
Year Cleared: |
2016 |
U.S. State or Country of Crime: |
North Carolina |
County or Region of Crime: |
Henderson |
City of Crime: |
Hendersonville |
Result: |
Judicially Exonerated |
Summary of Case: |
"Leonard Schalow was wrongly convicted in November 2015 of attempted first-degree murder by torture of his wife in Henderson County, North Carolina. " |
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Was Perpetrator Identified? |
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Age When Imprisoned: |
47 |
Age When Released: |
48 |
Sex: |
Male |
Skin/Ethnicity: |
White |
Information Source 1: |
"Vindictive prosecution prompts 3rd dismissal for Schalow related to severe beating of wife in 2014, By Staff, Henderson Times-News (Hendersonville, NC), January 7, 2020" |
Information Location 1: |
https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20200107/lsquovindictive-prosecutionrsquo-prompts-3rd-dismissal-for-schalow-related-to-severe-beating-of-wife-in-2014 |
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"State v. Schalow, 795 SE 2d 567 (NC Court of Appeals, 12-20-2016) (Ordering reversal of conviction and dismissal of charges. Trial court's ruling that Schalow's indictment was defective was correct -- therefore his trial after a mistrial was a constitutional double jeopardy violation.)" |
Information Location 2: |
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5903863003375427382&q=Leonard+Schalow&hl=en&as_sdt=4006 |
Information Source 3: |
"State v. Schalow, 809 SE 2d 579 (NC Supreme Court, 3-2-2018) ("Discretionary review improvidently allowed" for the State to appeal the 12-20-2016 Appeals Ct ruling ordering dismissal of charges agianst Schalow based on double jeopardy grounds.)" |
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