Charles Smith

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	8.33
Year Crime:	1982
Year Convicted:	1983
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Indiana
County or Region of Crime:	Allen
City of Crime:	Fort Wayne
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Charles "Red" Smith was wrongly convicted on September 21, 1983 of first-degree murder in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Charles Smith was sentenced to death. On December 13, 1989 the Indiana Supreme Court granted Smith a new trial on the basis his trial lawyer provided ineffective assitance of counsel. Smith was acquitted by a jury on May 9, 1991 after his retrial, and he was released after 8 years and 4 months in custody, more than six years of which was spent on death row."
Conviction Caused By:	Ineffective assistance of trial counsel.
Innocence Proved By:	"Smith was acquitted by a jury on May 9, 1991 after his retrial."
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Age When Imprisoned:	29
Age When Released:	37
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Smith v. State, 547 NE 2d 817 (Ind. Supreme Court, 12-13-1989)"
Information Location 1:	"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12913054246436367110&q=%22Charles+Smith%22&hl=en&as_sdt=4,15,121,253,254,255,262,263,264,265,266,267,316,317,318,325,326,327,328,329,330"
Information Source 2:	"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 347 ( © 1992)."
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Charles Smith

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

8.33

Year Crime:

1982

Year Convicted:

1983

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Indiana

County or Region of Crime:

Allen

City of Crime:

Fort Wayne

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

Innocence Proved By:

"Smith was acquitted by a jury on May 9, 1991 after his retrial."

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

29

Age When Released:

37

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Smith v. State, 547 NE 2d 817 (Ind. Supreme Court, 12-13-1989)"

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"http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12913054246436367110&q=%22Charles+Smith%22&hl=en&as_sdt=4,15,121,253,254,255,262,263,264,265,266,267,316,317,318,325,326,327,328,329,330"

Information Source 2:

"“In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases,” Michael L Radelet, HugoAdam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, Northeastern University Press, Boston, 1996 pb ed. with new forward, 347 ( © 1992)."

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Innocentlist.html

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