George Edward Shull

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Charge:	Sexual Assault and Assault with Deadly Weapon
Sentence:	5 yrs
Years Imprisoned:	2.5
Year Crime:	1988
Year Convicted:	1989
Year Cleared:	2009
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	Santa Clara
City of Crime:	Los Gatos
Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"George Edward Shull was wrongly convicted in 1989 of assault with a deadly weapon and sexual battery primarily based on the victim's eyewitness identification. Based on the new evidence of Shull passing a lie detector test and the victim recanting her identification that she was no longer confident that Shull was her assailant, on December 10, 2009 Shull's 1989 convictions were set aside."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous eyewitness identification by the victim.
Innocence Proved By:	"Based on the new evidence of Shull passing a lie detector test and the victim recanting her identification that she was no longer confident that Shull was her assailant, on December 10, 2009 Shull's 1989 convictions were set aside."
Defendant Aided By:	Northern California Innocence Project
Compensation Awarded:	Denied by State of Calif.
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	31
Age When Released:	33
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Northern California Innocence Project Newsletter, Summer 2010, p. 8"
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George Edward Shull

Charge:

Sexual Assault and Assault with Deadly Weapon

Sentence:

5 yrs

Years Imprisoned:

2.5

Year Crime:

1988

Year Convicted:

1989

Year Cleared:

2009

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

Santa Clara

City of Crime:

Los Gatos

Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous eyewitness identification by the victim.

Innocence Proved By:

"Based on the new evidence of Shull passing a lie detector test and the victim recanting her identification that she was no longer confident that Shull was her assailant, on December 10, 2009 Shull's 1989 convictions were set aside."

Defendant Aided By:

Northern California Innocence Project

Compensation Awarded:

Denied by State of Calif.

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

31

Age When Released:

33

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

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"Northern California Innocence Project Newsletter, Summer 2010, p. 8"

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