Patricia Stallings

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Charge:	First Degree Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1989
Year Convicted:	1991
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Missouri
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Patricia Stallings was wrongly convicted of the first-degree murder of her three month old son by ethylene glycol (anti-freeze) poisoning. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole. At the time of her imprisonment she was pregnant with her second child, and tests conducted after he was born showed that he had the same rare blood disease as the child that died -- which could show up as being caused by ethylene glycol poisoning. Based on the new scientific evidence Stallings made a motion to vacate her conviction and sentence which was granted. She was released in September 1991 after about eight months in custody."
Conviction Caused By:	Erroneous expert forensic testimony that her son died from anti-freeze poisoning.
Innocence Proved By:	Based on the new scientic evidence Stallings made a motion to vacate her conviction and sentence which was granted. She was released in September 1991 after about eight months in custody.
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"How the system failed Patricia Stallings, By Bill Smith, St Lous Post-Dispatch, October 20, 1991"
Information Location 1:	http://www.msbp.com/stlouis.htm
Information Source 2:	"How the Legal and Medical Systems failed Patricia and Ryan Stallings," By Rhonda Riglesberger, Justice:Denied - the magazine for the wrongly convicted, Volume 2, Issue 8."
Information Location 2:	http://www.justicedenied.org/patriciastallings.htm
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Patricia Stallings

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1989

Year Convicted:

1991

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Missouri

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Erroneous expert forensic testimony that her son died from anti-freeze poisoning.

Innocence Proved By:

Based on the new scientic evidence Stallings made a motion to vacate her conviction and sentence which was granted. She was released in September 1991 after about eight months in custody.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"How the system failed Patricia Stallings, By Bill Smith, St Lous Post-Dispatch, October 20, 1991"

Information Location 1:

http://www.msbp.com/stlouis.htm

Information Source 2:

"How the Legal and Medical Systems failed Patricia and Ryan Stallings," By Rhonda Riglesberger, Justice:Denied - the magazine for the wrongly convicted, Volume 2, Issue 8."

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http://www.justicedenied.org/patriciastallings.htm

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