Henry Tameleo

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life
Years Imprisoned:	17
Year Crime:	1965
Year Convicted:	1968
Year Cleared:	2002
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Massachusetts
County or Region of Crime:	Suffolk
City of Crime:	Chelsea
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Posthumously
Summary of Case:	"Henry Tameleo was one of four defendants framed by FBI for murdering a man in Boston in 1965 and sentenced to death. Henry Tameleo's sentence was commutted to life in prison when Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1974, following the Supreme Court's Furman decision. Three of Tameleo's co-defendants, Limone, Salvati and Greco, were also wrongly convicted. Limone and Greco were also sentenced to death and likewise had their sentences commutted to life. Tameleo died in prison in August 1985 of respiratory failure, and Greco died in 1995. Tameleo was 84 when he died, and he was the oldest man imprisoned in the Massachusetts State prison system. Salvati was released in 1997 after Massachusetts governor comutted his sentence, and Limone was released in 2001 after FBI documents were released proving that J. Edgar Hoover and other FBI officials knew the men were innocent prior to their trial. Limone, Salvati and Tameleo's convictions were vacated in 2001. Tameleo's conviction was vacated in 2002. Tameleo's estate sued the federal government. In July 2007 Tameleo's estate was awarded $13,000,000 of a total award of $101.7 million to the four defendants by federal District Court Judge Nancy Gertner. The federal government appealed the award, and on August 27, 2009 the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the award."
Conviction Caused By:	"Perjury by the prosecution's star witness, an FBI informant who was the actual murderer"
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Compensation Awarded:	"$13,000,000 (US government, July 2007 -- Award affirmed on 08-27-2009)"
Was Perpetrator Identified?	Yes
Age When Imprisoned:	67
Age When Released:	84
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"FBI’s Legacy of Shame, by Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied - the magazine for the wrongly convicted, Issue 27, Winter 2005, page 24-25."
Information Location 1:	http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_27/fbi%27s_legacy_of_shame.html
Information Source 2:	"Breakdown of $101m award to men wrongly convicted of murder, Boston Globe, July 26, 2007"
Information Location 2:	http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/07/26/breakdown_of_101m_award_to_men_wrongly_convicted_of_murder/
Information Source 3:	"FBI loses appeal of 101.7mil verdict, By Jonathan Saltzman (Globe Staff), The Boston Globe, August 28, 2009"
Information Location 3:	http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/28/fbi_loses_appeal_of_101m_verdict_in_scapegoats_case/
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Henry Tameleo

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death and later resentenced or commuted to Life

Years Imprisoned:

17

Year Crime:

1965

Year Convicted:

1968

Year Cleared:

2002

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Massachusetts

County or Region of Crime:

Suffolk

City of Crime:

Chelsea

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Posthumously

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Perjury by the prosecution's star witness, an FBI informant who was the actual murderer"

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$13,000,000 (US government, July 2007 -- Award affirmed on 08-27-2009)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Yes

Age When Imprisoned:

67

Age When Released:

84

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"FBI’s Legacy of Shame, by Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied - the magazine for the wrongly convicted, Issue 27, Winter 2005, page 24-25."

Information Location 1:

http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_27/fbi%27s_legacy_of_shame.html

Information Source 2:

"Breakdown of $101m award to men wrongly convicted of murder, Boston Globe, July 26, 2007"

Information Location 2:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/07/26/breakdown_of_101m_award_to_men_wrongly_convicted_of_murder/

Information Source 3:

"FBI loses appeal of 101.7mil verdict, By Jonathan Saltzman (Globe Staff), The Boston Globe, August 28, 2009"

Information Location 3:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/28/fbi_loses_appeal_of_101m_verdict_in_scapegoats_case/

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