David L. Shephard

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Charge:	Rape and Robbery (including burglary)
Sentence:	30 years
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	1983
Year Convicted:	1984
Year Cleared:	1994
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	New Jersey
County or Region of Crime:	Essex
City of Crime:	Newark
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"David L. Shephard was wrongly convicted in 1984 of kidnapping a woman from a Newark, New Jersey shopping mall with another man and raping her. He was convicted based on the woman's identification of him. David Shephard was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 1994 DNA testing unavailable at the time of his trial excluded him as one of the woman's assailants and he was released."
Conviction Caused By:	Eyewitness error by the rape victim
Innocence Proved By:	In 1994 DNA testing unavailable at the time of David Shephard's trial excluded him as one of the woman's assailants and he was released.
Defendant Aided By:	Innocence Project NY
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	21
Age When Released:	31
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Tough Luck for the Innocent Man, BY Michael Higgins, ABA Journal"
Information Location 1:	http://truthinjustice.org/abafalse.htm
Information Source 2:	Innocence Project database
Information Location 2:	http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=28
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David L. Shephard

Charge:

Rape and Robbery (including burglary)

Sentence:

30 years

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

1983

Year Convicted:

1984

Year Cleared:

1994

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

New Jersey

County or Region of Crime:

Essex

City of Crime:

Newark

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Eyewitness error by the rape victim

Innocence Proved By:

In 1994 DNA testing unavailable at the time of David Shephard's trial excluded him as one of the woman's assailants and he was released.

Defendant Aided By:

Innocence Project NY

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

21

Age When Released:

31

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Tough Luck for the Innocent Man, BY Michael Higgins, ABA Journal"

Information Location 1:

http://truthinjustice.org/abafalse.htm

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Innocence Project database

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/case/display_profile.php?id=28

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