Howard Shaffer

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	3
Year Crime:	1926
Year Convicted:	1927
Year Cleared:	1930
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Florida
County or Region of Crime:	Duval
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Howard Shaffer, Charles Stevens, and William Troop were codefendants. They were dubbed by the media as the Duval Three. All three were twice convicted of murder and sentenced to death based solely on the testimony of the victim's husband, who claimed to have witnessed his wife's murder. In 1930, after their third trial the judge ordered a judgment of acquittal for lack of evidence because the "eyewitness" finally admitted the attackers had been masked and he couldn't identify them. The three men were immediately released after three years of wrongful imprisonment on death row. The men were not awarded any compensation."
Conviction Caused By:	Perjurious testimony by the prosecution's eyewitness who finally admitted the assailants had been masked and he couldn't identify them.
Innocence Proved By:	Judgment of acquittal ordered by the trial judge after their third trial.
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Compensation Awarded:	No
Was Perpetrator Identified?
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Age When Released:
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 345."
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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. 159+."
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Information Source 3:	"These 3 got only blue sky, By Bill Foley, The Florida Times-Union, April 26, 1998"
Information Location 3:	http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/042698/nef_foley.html
Information Source 4:	"Troop v. State, 123 So. 811 (1929)"
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Howard Shaffer

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

3

Year Crime:

1926

Year Convicted:

1927

Year Cleared:

1930

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Florida

County or Region of Crime:

Duval

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Perjurious testimony by the prosecution's eyewitness who finally admitted the assailants had been masked and he couldn't identify them.

Innocence Proved By:

Judgment of acquittal ordered by the trial judge after their third trial.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

No

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, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1992 p. 345."

Information Location 1:

Information Source 2:

"“Miscarriages of Justice in Potentially Capital Cases,” Hugo Adam Bedau & Michael L. Radelet, Stanford Law Review, November, 1987, Vol. 40, p. 159+."

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Information Source 3:

"These 3 got only blue sky, By Bill Foley, The Florida Times-Union, April 26, 1998"

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http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/042698/nef_foley.html

Information Source 4:

"Troop v. State, 123 So. 811 (1929)"

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